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Environment

Junk Food Is Bad For Plants, Too

How a steady diet of fertilizers has turned crops into couch potatoes.

Biosphere—The Remake

This time the test is Earth’s own ecological future.

March 7, 2016

The Ecologist Who Threw Starfish

Robert Paine showed us the surprising importance of predators.

March 7, 2016

How Climate Change Could Starve the Monkeys

My sister the scientist makes a startling discovery in an Ugandan jungle.

February 9, 2016

Why Our Intuition About Sea-Level Rise Is Wrong

A geologist explains that climate change is not just about a global average sea rise.

February 9, 2016

How to Restart an Ecosystem

Economics and conservation are converging to resurrect one of the planet’s greatest parks.

September 10, 2015