In a blatant act of censorship, the Gilbert Public Schools Governing Board voted on Oct. 28 to remove a page from “Campbell Biology: Concepts and Connections,” a widely used biology textbook. The page ...

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. With every year that greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, the climate ...

The teaching of science has long generated controversy in the United States—from evolution in the early 20th century to climate change today. Debates have also often emerged around how textbooks teach ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming many fields of study, and biology is no exception. As AI technologies advance, they are challenging old assumptions and leading to discoveries that are ...

Climate change may represent a crisis, but that isn’t how college biology textbooks depict it, according to a new study. The amount of textbook real estate devoted to climate change has continually ...

Some people collect stamps. Jennifer Landin collects textbooks. Biology textbooks, to be exact. So when a student came to her with a question about the environment, Landin, an associate professor at ...

A college biology student at University of California Berkeley studies at Doe library on campus. A new study finds that college biology textbooks contain little information on climate change. Credit: ...

The textbooks used in about 66% of U.S. classrooms teach outdated ideas about the differences between sex and gender, a new study published in the journal Science from the American Association for the ...

Coverage of climate change in college biology textbooks expanded greatly during the 1990s, but recent changes have been minor and emphasize the impacts of climate change rather than focusing on ...

The teaching of science has long generated controversy in the United States—from evolution in the early 20th century to climate change today. Debates have also often emerged around how textbooks teach ...

With every year that greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, the climate crisis deepens — as does the threat it poses to life on Earth. But that increasing urgency isn’t reflected in many of the ...