Environment

A glimpse into the arboreal underworld tells us how trees will cope in a changing climate

Point Nemo, the most remote location on the planet, is serving as humanity’s cosmic junkyard

Why caring for nature is caring for ourselves

With trials of atomic weapons set to resume, we recall the environmental and health damage wrought by such testing

As the super strong storm lashes the Caribbean, vulnerable species and habitats lie in its path

Powerful storms like Hurricane Melissa foment an odd phenomenon called the “stadium effect” at their centers

Researchers are building equations for vegetation processes that might improve climate models

Problematic piles of Sargassum could serve as useful raw material for a variety of products

An ambitious mission seeks to map the flow of crucial chemicals through marine food webs in far-flung oceanic gyres

This visionary new initiative would do more than save the ocean. It would regenerate it.

An aging Earth, like an aging body, is increasingly vulnerable to heat’s fatal strikes

Each leviathan of the deep has a signature that can be used to forecast it