Environment

How the desert taught me to smell

Insights from a geophysicist.

Illustrating what scientists have learned from the disaster 20 years ago.

The true meaning of legal protection for nature.

Timelapse photographs documenting life on the bayou.

For the first time, we can calculate how much climate change impacts a single storm’s severity.

What 700 years of historical data can tell us about extreme weather.

Cathedrals, seed banks, and oaks: How to live in times of change.

Metals and minerals from industry can trigger snowfall over hundreds of miles.

On the trail of an extinct mustelid in Maine.

Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard on the inspiration for his latest novel and his turn to sci-fi.

Why permafrost in the tundra has begun to explode.