Why is the carbon tax, after years of debate, no longer popular in Washington?

Once embraced from ExxonMobil to Bernie Sanders, the carbon tax has been cast aside by both parties — for different reasons

September 25, 2020

Climate change is toppling tree frogs from rainforest canopies

Joan Meiners, Ecology

July 12, 2020

Fungi learn how to cope with drought, but at a cost

Matthew Vandermeulen, University at Buffalo

4 peer comments

June 7, 2020

Climate change will make allergy sufferers suffer a little bit longer each year

Lila Westreich, University of Washington

2 peer comments

May 17, 2020

Faraway cities are sending their heat to the Arctic's ecosystem

May 3, 2020

Melting sea ice gives phytoplankton the space to pump out cloud-forming gasses

Elisa Bonnin, University of Washington

4 peer comments

January 12, 2020

Climate change is destroying ancient murals in Texas

July 14, 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

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

Cassie Freund, Wake Forest University

4 peer comments

May 14, 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

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

Mosquito-borne diseases get a boost from climate change

Max G. Levy, Science and Health Journalism

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

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

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

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

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

Brittney G. Borowiec, Wilfrid Laurier University

1 peer comment

May 14, 2018

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

Ellen Stuart-Haëntjens, Virginia Commonwealth University

1 peer comment

May 8, 2018

How atmospheric dust might help cool the planet

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

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

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

Jenny Howard, Wake Forest University

December 18, 2017

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, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

December 15, 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