Most pilots say the objective is to fly around thunderstorms and icy clouds. But for three decades, Peter Hobbs has been ordering his aviators to fly him directly into raging storms. Only in the thick of cumulonimbus can the cloud microphysicist gather the data he needs to understand the origins of precipitation. Hobbs has spent [...]

One of the pioneer environmentalists John Muir, put it this way, “In a war between humans and animals, I’d take the side of the bears.” Well, it’s happening. Not here, but a group of American conservationists says it is do or die time in the African wilderness. In the vast and barely governed Central African [...]