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How shadowy tax havens skirt conservation efforts Read now →

Dark money foreign investments may bankroll deforestation and overfishing

Ecology

Wake Forest University

The UN reports humanity is failing its climate change goals Read now →

Michael Graw, Oregon State University

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

Elena Suglia, UC Davis

These corals love the warming oceans Read now →

Gina Mantica, Tufts University

Climate change is rotting away Greenland's cultural heritage Read now →

Julie Hollis, Government of Greenland

Climate is getting more extreme in every possible way Read now →

Coleman Harris, Vanderbilt University

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

Sandra Brooke, Florida State University

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

Brittany Ward, University of Waikato

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

Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

Rising seas are threatening historical sites around the world Read now →

As climate change encroaches, our heritage is drowning

Archaeology

New York University

When evolution's path leads to a dead end Read now →

Julie Hollis, Government of Greenland

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

Brittney Borowiec, McMaster University

Tree-murdering fungi and insects increasingly contribute to climate change Read now →

Ellen Stuart-Haëntjens, Virginia Commonwealth University

How atmospheric dust might help cool the planet Read now →

Elisa Bonnin, University of Washington

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

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

How farmers on the Great Plains are changing the local climate Read now →

Ellen Stuart-Haëntjens, Virginia Commonwealth University

Why don't Americans care about chemicals? Read now →

Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

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

Renee Salas, Massachusetts General Hospital

What Pokémon GO can teach conservationists about public engagement Read now →

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

Ecology

Wake Forest University

Creationism helped push climate skepticism into classrooms Read now →

Julia York, University of Texas at Austin

Low doses of contaminants, long ignored, can have vast consequences Read now →

Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

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

Elisa Bonnin, University of Washington

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

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

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

Daniel Ackerman, University of Minnesota

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

Baird Langenbrunner, UC Irvine

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

Kylla Benes, Ecology

Tiny computers are transforming weather data collection Read now →

Alison Nugent, University of Hawaii

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

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

Ecology

Wake Forest University

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

Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Pollution and climate change hurt children most of all Read now →

Renee Salas, Massachusetts General Hospital

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

Julia York, University of Texas at Austin

How Saharan dust can influence health all the way in Florida Read now →

Maite Ghazaleh Bucher, University of Georgia

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

Jane Zelikova, University of Wyoming

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

Gabriela Serrato Marks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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

Alison Nugent, University of Hawaii

Can termites teach us to build environmentally friendly communities? Read now →

Salmaan Craig, Harvard University

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

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

Ecology

Wake Forest University

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Life is evolving through a hurricane of human pollution Read now →

Brittney Borowiec, McMaster University

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

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

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

Michael Graw, Oregon State University

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

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

Feeding the world as the climate changes will depend on genetic engineering Read now →

Jackie Grimm, Princeton University

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

Becky Parker, Nova Scotia Nature Trust

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

Rebecca Flynn, University of Rhode Island

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

Anna Robuck, University of Rhode Island

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

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

Marine Biology

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

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

Abrahim El Gamal, Scripps Institution of Oceanography