For decades, climate policy has leaned on a comforting assumption: that as humans emit more carbon dioxide, plants will ...

There's an interesting piece over at National Review concerning a (quite possibly illegal) iron fertilisation experiment that was done off the west coast a couple of years back. It certainly seems to ...

ANY biologically aware parent who has started talking about the birds and the bees will have realised halfway through that what they are really discussing is flowers. Bees carry pollen grains from one ...

Simply sign up to the Climate change myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Next summer, if all goes to plan, shiploads of iron-rich dust will be distributed over the Pacific Ocean off the ...

Prof Richard Betts is head of climate impacts research at the Met Office Hadley Centre and chair in climate impacts at the University of Exeter. But while the general principles of CO 2 fertilisation ...

Mature ova are released from the ovary into the oviduct where they may be fertilised by sperm to form a zygote. In humans, fertilisation happens inside the woman’s body. This is a process called ...