Environment

Scientist Michael Faraday's 1855 letter about the "feculence" of the River Thames.

The blunt impact of ocean pollution, in one photograph.

Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake reveals why politics won't save us.

These plants feature some seriously funky adaptations.

Environmental leaders need to pursue a vision of the future, not just address mistakes of the past.

Without flowers, there would be no us.

Three Earth plants will soon make a new home on the lunar surface.

A conversation between Maya Gabeira and Lorenzo Bertelli.

Can cryogenically freezing coral stop time long enough to save them?

How our sense of what’s right and wrong fluctuates through the year.

How removing invasive species helped restore an island.

Island and ocean health are too tightly intertwined to be repaired in a vacuum.