Carla Staver's research is going up in smoke – and that's a good thing. The professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology has started hundreds of fires – experimental ones – in African savannas to learn more about how they start and stop burning, and...
At the heart of almost every discussion of climate change, there is carbon. It accumulates in the atmosphere — produced primarily by the burning of fossil fuels — and if left unchecked it may lead to catastrophic consequences for life on Earth.
Humanity’s...