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

Volcanoes blanketed by tropical rainforests are a natural laboratory to study climate change

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

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

Cassie Freund, 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

1 peer comment

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

Lauren McKee, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

3 peer comments

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

1 peer comment

How shadowy tax havens skirt conservation efforts

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

1 peer comment

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"

This time the planet is warming much, much faster

Elena Suglia, UC Davis

2 peer comments

These corals love the warming oceans

Gina Mantica, 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

2 peer comments

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

3 peer comments

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

Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

1 peer comment

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

Climate change is upending migration patterns that predate Cleopatra

Brittney Borowiec, McMaster University

1 peer comment

Tree-murdering fungi and insects increasingly contribute to climate change

Ellen, 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

1 peer comment

Tropical rainforests may be near a tipping point beyond our control

Michael Graw, Oregon State University

1 peer comment

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

2 peer comments

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

Renee Salas, Massachusetts General Hospital

What Pokémon GO can teach conservationists about public engagement

In six days, players collected as much data as naturalists had in 400 years

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

Creationism helped push climate skepticism into classrooms

Julia, University of Texas at Austin

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

Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

1 peer comment

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

2 peer comments

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

Daniel Ackerman, University of Minnesota

1 peer comment

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

Baird Langenbrunner, UC Irvine

1 peer comment

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

Kylla Benes, Ecology

2 peer comments

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

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

JENNIFER HOWARD, Wake Forest University

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

Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Pollution and climate change hurt children most of all

Renee Salas, Massachusetts General Hospital

2 peer comments

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

Julia, University of Texas at Austin

1 peer comment

How Saharan dust can influence health all the way in Florida

Maite Ghazaleh Bucher, University of Georgia

1 peer comment

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

1 peer comment

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

Alison Nugent, University of Hawaii

1 peer comment

Can termites teach us to build environmentally friendly communities?

Salmaan Craig, Harvard University

3 peer comments

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

Decades of research show how the sardine's decline threatens an entire ecosystem

JENNIFER HOWARD, Wake Forest University

1 peer comment

Life is evolving through a hurricane of human pollution

Brittney Borowiec, McMaster University

1 peer comment

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

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

1 peer comment

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

Michael Graw, Oregon State University

2 peer comments

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

This seemingly mundane plant might be more important than we realize.

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

Abrahim El Gamal, Scripps Institution of Oceanography