For centuries, human civilization has impacted the world without any understanding of the consequences. If anything is going to survive what's coming next, it'll have to adapt. How did we get here? What could happen? What needs to change?

Climate change in the Arctic has ripple effects for all life on Earth

The poles are warming faster than the rest of the planet, causing extreme weather events in the Northern hemisphere

Rebecca Dzombak, University of Michigan

1 peer comment

February 13, 2020

Bats' unique immune systems make them stealthy viral reservoirs

Marnie Willman, University of Manitoba Bannatyne

4 peer comments

February 4, 2020

Sorry, your houseplants aren't actually purifying your apartment's air

Luyi Cheng, Northwestern University

5 peer comments

January 30, 2020

The key to unlocking a glacier's past is a chainsaw and some quantum mechanics

Katherine McCormick, University of Washington

January 28, 2020

Lead poisoning hits low-income children harder than their affluent neighbors

Claudia Lopez-Lloreda, University of Pennsylvania

7 peer comments

January 13, 2020

Pheromones and social lives are becoming a liability for insects in changing climates

Madison Sankovitz, University of California Riverside

1 peer comment

December 5, 2019

Should the age of humans have a geologic name?

Rebecca Dzombak, University of Michigan

2 peer comments

November 7, 2019

How should we live in the era of climate change?

September 26, 2019

Mary Annaïse Heglar's writing on climate change is a "punch in the gut" — and that's by design

September 25, 2019

Climate strikers send a message: "Put your planet and its people over profit."

"We are supposed to be the 'leaders of tomorrow', but are being forced to become the leaders of today because our current leaders refuse to hear our cries."

Dan Samorodnitsky

September 23, 2019

We can talk about climate change with stories of kindness, fairytales, and hope

Maryam Zaringhalam, Molecular Biology

September 23, 2019

Ending coal mining is essential to solving the climate crisis

September 22, 2019

The water supply for billions of people is drying up

Dan Samorodnitsky

September 22, 2019

There's a straight line from Trump's trade war with China to the destruction of the Amazon

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

1 peer comment

September 4, 2019

Wildfires in Canada are burning down forests of mushrooms

Olivia Box, University of Vermont

3 peer comments

August 18, 2019

Inside the political deadlock of establishing Marine Protected Areas in the Southern Ocean

Seth Sykora-Bodie, Duke University

August 16, 2019

We need genetic engineering to stave off climate change-induced global hunger

Devang Mehta, University of Alberta

2 peer comments

August 13, 2019

Climate change is going to upset global food supplies and make Dust Bowl summers look tame

Dan Samorodnitsky

August 9, 2019

Teenage activists are leading the fight against climate change

Baby boomers are downplaying climate change's risks, so a new generation raises their voice

August 5, 2019

The US-Mexico border is making life complicated for green sea turtles

Tim Briggs, Northeastern University

1 peer comment

June 18, 2019

You're eating, drinking, and breathing microplastics. Now what?

Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

3 peer comments

June 14, 2019

There's no corner of the globe safe from microplastic pollution

Rebecca Dzombak, University of Michigan

2 peer comments

June 10, 2019

By 2100, the ocean will be a different color

Maddie Bender, Yale University

June 2, 2019

Climate change is almost too big a problem to study. The solution? Volcanoes.

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

1 peer comment

May 21, 2019

Biodiversity loss is the very real end of the world and no one is acting like it

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

4 peer comments

May 14, 2019

With inspiration from shark skin, redesigned oil tanker hulls could keep the oceans clean

Patricia Fernandez

3 peer comments

April 28, 2019

Netflix's Our Planet showed walruses in distress. We need to find what humanity's role is

Darcy Shapiro, Rutgers University

1 peer comment

April 24, 2019

Reducing agricultural carbon emissions will be good for the planet and our stomachs

From soil microbes to factory farming, the Green New Deal could radically improve our food system

Lauren Sara McKee, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

3 peer comments

April 22, 2019

While Congress does nothing, New York City passed its own climate legislation

April 21, 2019

Climate change is causing floods all over the world. Here's what you can do to help

Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

March 29, 2019

Mosquito-borne diseases get a boost from climate change

Max Levy, University of Colorado Boulder

March 28, 2019

Warming oceans cast a chill over New England's sea turtles

Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

1 peer comment

March 26, 2019

How shadowy tax havens skirt conservation efforts

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

1 peer comment

March 21, 2019

The UN reports humanity is failing its climate change goals

Michael Graw, Oregon State University

March 12, 2019

Climate change once heated the oceans and caused "The Great Dying"

Elena Suglia, UC Davis

2 peer comments

February 25, 2019

Ancient plankton have climate data hidden in their shells

Elisa Bonnin, University of Washington

1 peer comment

January 23, 2019

These corals love the warming oceans

Japanese coral communities are expanding in response to warming temperatures, but the effects could be disastrous

Gina Mantica, Tufts University

1 peer comment

January 16, 2019

Climate change is rotting away Greenland's cultural heritage

Julie Hollis, Government of Greenland

January 15, 2019

Climate is getting more extreme in every possible way

Coleman Harris, Vanderbilt University

2 peer comments

January 8, 2019

Even corals deep down on the ocean floor can’t escape humanity's impact

Sandra Brooke, Florida State University

December 5, 2018

We're studying collapsed civilizations so that ours can endure climate change

Brittany Ward, University of Waikato

3 peer comments

November 29, 2018

Fewer crops are feeding more people worldwide – and that’s not good

Karl Zimmerer, Pennsylvania State University

November 21, 2018

Our buildings could help reverse global warming, instead of being a major cause

Madison Sankovitz, University of California Riverside

November 7, 2018

These unregulated, potentially dangerous chemicals are probably already in your bloodstream

Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

1 peer comment

October 24, 2018

After Hurricane Florence, North Carolina's water quality will go down the toilet

Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

1 peer comment

September 20, 2018

Ancient Romans never reached Greenland, but the emissions from their silver mining did

Ice cores, used to study ancient climates, also contain the history of the Roman Empire

Elisa Bonnin, University of Washington

September 10, 2018

How to be a better tourist? Look to the Galápagos

Jenny Howard, Wake Forest University

September 3, 2018

It looks like microbes can help clean up mining pollution

Rose Jones, Bigelow Laboratory of Ocean Science

1 peer comment

August 23, 2018

Rising seas are threatening historical sites around the world

Patty Hamrick, New York University

June 4, 2018

When evolution's path leads to a dead end

Julie Hollis, Government of Greenland

June 4, 2018

Trump's wall would harm unique and fragile wildlife on the California border

Christa Trexler, UC San Diego

May 29, 2018

Coal ash contains lead, arsenic, and mercury – and it's mostly unregulated

Laura Mast, Georgia Institute of Technology

1 peer comment

May 16, 2018

Tracking the history – and future – of the world's largest penguin breeding colony

Brittney Borowiec, Wilfrid Laurier University

1 peer comment

May 14, 2018

Tree-murdering fungi and insects increasingly contribute to climate change

Ellen Stuart-Haëntjens, Virginia Commonwealth University

1 peer comment

May 8, 2018

How atmospheric dust might help cool the planet

New research suggests an old idea of geoengineering has more merit than long suspected

Elisa Bonnin, University of Washington

May 1, 2018

'Being Ecological' is a book with admirable aims and a tangled execution

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

April 18, 2018

How farmers on the Great Plains are changing the local climate

Ellen Stuart-Haëntjens, Virginia Commonwealth University

1 peer comment

April 11, 2018

Tropical rainforests may be near a tipping point beyond our control

Michael Graw, Oregon State University

1 peer comment

March 19, 2018

A gold rush in the Peruvian Amazon threatens to fill a vital and diverse ecosystem with mercury

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

March 12, 2018

Why don't Americans care about chemicals?

Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

2 peer comments

March 6, 2018

Climate change harms everyone's health. Yes, even yours.

Renee Salas, Massachusetts General Hospital

March 5, 2018

What Pokémon GO can teach conservationists about public engagement

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

February 20, 2018

Can corals be saved? The key may be in their microbes

Maite Ghazaleh Bucher, University of Georgia

3 peer comments

February 7, 2018

Creationism helped push climate skepticism into classrooms

Science education has become a political issue, but civic engagement can still work wonders

Julia York, University of Texas at Austin

February 5, 2018

Low doses of contaminants, long ignored, can have vast consequences

Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

1 peer comment

January 29, 2018

To predict the future of Southern California's seas, scientists are looking to the past

Elisa Bonnin, University of Washington

January 29, 2018

Scientists were long baffled by a methane surplus in our atmosphere. The culprit: trees

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

2 peer comments

January 23, 2018

What does California's future look like? Scientists asked trees

Daniel Ackerman, University of Minnesota

1 peer comment

January 15, 2018

What the Ice Age tells us about how plants will manage in a hotter world

Baird Langenbrunner, UC Irvine

1 peer comment

January 10, 2018

Is light pollution changing how plants do – and don't – grow?

Kylla Benes, Ecology

2 peer comments

January 4, 2018

Shrews change size with the seasons. Could we do it too?

Jasmin Imran Alsous, Princeton University

December 29, 2017

Tiny computers are transforming weather data collection

Alison Nugent, University of Hawaii

December 20, 2017

How fieldwork on a remote, tiny island taught me to navigate family dinners

Doing science far away helped this ecologist talk to those close to home

Jenny Howard, Wake Forest University

December 18, 2017

It's time to stop excluding people with disabilities from science

Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

December 15, 2017

Toxic chemicals are being freed from melting glaciers

Carrie McDonough, Colorado School of Mines

3 peer comments

December 12, 2017

Pollution and climate change hurt children most of all

Renee Salas, Massachusetts General Hospital

2 peer comments

December 11, 2017

Alaska's oilfield has been subtly changing the state's environment for decades. Will Congress notice?

Julia York, University of Texas at Austin

1 peer comment

December 11, 2017

How Saharan dust can influence health all the way in Florida

Maite Ghazaleh Bucher, University of Georgia

1 peer comment

December 7, 2017

The most cost-effective ways to fight climate change are literally under our feet

Jane Zelikova, University of Wyoming

December 6, 2017

What ancient corn farmers can teach us about engineering crops for climate change

Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1 peer comment

December 5, 2017

Can Hawaii's waterfall-climbing fish survive when mountain rains change?

Alison Nugent, University of Hawaii

1 peer comment

December 4, 2017

Can termites teach us to build environmentally friendly communities?

Meet the researchers searching for more climate-friendly architecture

Salmaan Craig, Harvard University

3 peer comments

December 4, 2017

Boobies of the Galápagos are replacing their disappearing food source with junk fish

Jenny Howard, Wake Forest University

1 peer comment

November 30, 2017

Life is evolving through a hurricane of human pollution

Brittney Borowiec, Wilfrid Laurier University

1 peer comment

November 16, 2017

Only eight hurricanes hit New England in 100 years. Soon more will head for Boston

Michael Graw, Oregon State University

1 peer comment

November 6, 2017

Biodiversity doesn't just arise out of healthy ecosystems. It helps create them

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

1 peer comment

October 12, 2017

We know how to fight wildfires effectively. Why don't we do it?

Michael Graw, Oregon State University

2 peer comments

October 10, 2017

We know terrifyingly little about how our bodies respond to pollutants, but that's changing

Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

2 peer comments

October 4, 2017

What modern conservationists can learn from humanity's long history with rainforests

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

September 12, 2017

Feeding the world as the climate changes will depend on genetic engineering

Jackie Grimm, Princeton University

August 30, 2017

Some good news: peatlands might help store more carbon as temperatures rise

Don't drain these swamps

Becky Parker, Nova Scotia Nature Trust

August 24, 2017

Want to know where hard-to-find squid live? Ask their predators

Rebecca Flynn, University of Rhode Island

August 8, 2017

We've poured thousands of manmade chemicals into the ocean. Now they're mixing in unpredictable ways.

Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

June 1, 2017

Seagrass meadows protect fish, coral and humans from disease – and we’re losing them

Megan Chen, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

May 22, 2017

Conservationists can't tackle all of the ocean's problems at once, so scientists are helping them triage

Abrahim El Gamal, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

April 3, 2017