climate change

Global warming is clearly affecting plants and animals, but we should not try to tease apart the specific contribution of greenhouse gas driven climate change to extinctions or declines of species at local scales, biologists from The University of Texas at Austin advise.

The endangered Quino checkerspot butterfly experiences pressures in Southern California from climate…   » Continue Reading

The government of Kiribati, a set of islands in the Pacific Ocean, is worried that climate change and population pressure could make significant parts of the country uninhabitable within the century.

With help from abroad, it has begun the slow process of familiarizing residents with nearby Australia.

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Workshop to identify next steps for the community 4 p.m. Aug. 24.

The Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs will host the international conference "After Copenhagen: Collaborative Response to Climate Change," the first part of a biennial global climate forum between Texas and Alberta, Canada.

The two-day conference, being held April 6 through 9, will focus on research, policy and [...]

In the past year, political controversies as diverse as climate change, immigration, Guantanamo and Supreme Court nominations have had one thing in common: Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has broken ranks with his party to collaborate with Democrats.

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China has tangled with the United States recently over Iran sanctions, climate change, arms sales to Taiwan, the Dalai Lama, cyberattacks, military modernization and exchange rates.

The increasingly harsh attitude has left U.S. officials and China analysts wondering where relations are headed.

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Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, working with scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), have received a $4.6 million grant to explore how switchgrass, a native prairie grass and promising source of biofuel, will fare under future climate change.

"We're combining our strengths to tackle a number of basic problems in plant [...]

The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law has been awarded a $7.6 million grant by the U.

S. Department of Defense, the largest single award dedicated to social science research The University of Texas at Austin has received.

The five-year grant will fund the Strauss Center's Program on Climate Change and African Political [...]