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

Radical, wholesale change is needed right this second and cannot be delayed

Ecology

Wake Forest University

3 peer comments

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

Darcy Shapiro, Rutgers University

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

Lauren McKee, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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

Mosquito-borne diseases get a boost from climate change

Max Levy, University of Colorado Boulder

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

Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

How shadowy tax havens skirt conservation efforts

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

The UN reports humanity is failing its climate change goals

Michael Graw, Oregon State University

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

Elena Suglia, UC Davis

These corals love the warming oceans

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

Biology

Tufts University

1 peer comment

Climate change is rotting away Greenland's cultural heritage

Julie Hollis, Government of Greenland

Climate is getting more extreme in every possible way

Coleman Harris, Vanderbilt University

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

Sandra Brooke, Florida State University

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

Brittany Ward, University of Waikato

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

Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

Rising seas are threatening historical sites around the world

Patty Hamrick, New York University

When evolution's path leads to a dead end

Julie Hollis, Government of Greenland

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

Brittney Borowiec, McMaster University

Tree-murdering fungi and insects increasingly contribute to climate change

New research suggests carbon dioxide released from dying forests equals emissions from 11 million cars

Ecology and Biogeochemistry

Virginia Commonwealth University

1 peer comment

How atmospheric dust might help cool the planet

Elisa Bonnin, University of Washington

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

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

How farmers on the Great Plains are changing the local climate

Ellen, Virginia Commonwealth University

Tropical rainforests may be near a tipping point beyond our control

Michael Graw, Oregon State University

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

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

Why don't Americans care about chemicals?

Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

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

Renee Salas, Massachusetts General Hospital

What Pokémon GO can teach conservationists about public engagement

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

Creationism helped push climate skepticism into classrooms

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

Polar Science

University of Texas at Austin

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

Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

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

Elisa Bonnin, University of Washington

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

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

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

Daniel Ackerman, University of Minnesota

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

Baird Langenbrunner, UC Irvine

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

Kylla Benes, Ecology

Tiny computers are transforming weather data collection

Alison Nugent, University of Hawaii

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

JENNIFER HOWARD, Wake Forest University

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

You can be a great scientist without being able to carry a 50-pound backpack out of a cave

Gabriela Serrato Marks

Marine Geology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Pollution and climate change hurt children most of all

Renee Salas, Massachusetts General Hospital

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

Julia, University of Texas at Austin

How Saharan dust can influence health all the way in Florida

Maite Ghazaleh Bucher, University of Georgia

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

Jane Zelikova, University of Wyoming

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

Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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

Alison Nugent, University of Hawaii

Can termites teach us to build environmentally friendly communities?

Salmaan Craig, Harvard University

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

JENNIFER HOWARD, Wake Forest University

Life is evolving through a hurricane of human pollution

Animals are adapting to pollutants in surprising and often costly ways

Brittney Borowiec

Environmental Physiology

McMaster University

1 peer comment

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

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

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

Michael Graw, Oregon State University

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

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

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

Jackie Grimm, Princeton University

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

Becky Parker, Nova Scotia Nature Trust

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

Rebecca Flynn, University of Rhode Island

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

Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

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

Megan Chen, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

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

The ocean contains many vulnerable ecosystems that need protecting. So where should we start?

Abrahim El Gamal

Marine Chemical Biology

Scripps Institution of Oceanography