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

With warming temperatures, microscopic plankton are creating big clouds that could further affect Arctic temperatures

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

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 Levy, University of Colorado Boulder

March 28, 2019

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

Recent research suggests warming seas will cause more stranded 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

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

Floodwaters contaminated with coal ash, human sewage, and animal waste throw the entire watershed out of balance

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 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

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

Bats are the canaries in the Amazonian goldmine

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

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

New research seems to resolve a puzzle of why plants struggled in the past

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

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

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

In the era of GMO crops, farmers can learn old lessons of diversity

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?

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

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

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