Environment
How “Plant Math” Can Help Predict the Climate’s Future
Researchers are building equations for vegetation processes that might improve climate models
New Life for Rotting Seaweed
Problematic piles of <i>Sargassum</i> could serve as useful raw material for a variety of products
Modeling the Deep
An ambitious mission seeks to map the flow of crucial chemicals through marine food webs in far-flung oceanic gyres
The Deep Ocean Is a Global Public Good
This visionary new initiative would do more than save the ocean. It would regenerate it.
Gaia’s Got a Fever
An aging Earth, like an aging body, is increasingly vulnerable to heat’s fatal strikes
Rogue Wave Mystery Solved
Each leviathan of the deep has a signature that can be used to forecast it
Extreme Heat Will Change You
High temperatures can alter our bodies at the molecular level











