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Environment

Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Environmentalism

To stop destroying nature, developers are mimicking it.

The Greening of Antarctica

Few have witnessed the impact of global warming more closely than this scientist.

October 7, 2020

Kim Stanley Robinson Holds Out Hope

The science-fiction author on why climate change doesn’t have to be humanity’s final story.

October 7, 2020

How Psilocybin Can Save the Environment

To preserve nature, we need to open our minds to it.

September 30, 2020

Reciprocity in the Age of Extinction

After so much taking, it’s time to give.

September 17, 2020

The Environmental Headache in Your Shampoo

Palm oil is an environmental scourge. Plant biology has a solution.

Dawn of the Heliocene

Why the next geological epoch should be named for when we tapped the sun’s energy.

September 15, 2020

Toxic but Fascinating

Jellyfish have mesmerized people for millennia, and much remains to be learned about them.

September 9, 2020

The Ocean Is Struggling to Breathe, Too

The little-appreciated but very big problem of marine hypoxia.

September 1, 2020

To Protect Coral Reefs, Protect Fishes and Birds

Biodiversity itself seems to nourish the rainforests of the sea.

August 18, 2020

Global Wave Discovery Ends 220-Year Search

An 18th-century physicist first predicted the existence of a chorus of atmospheric waves that swoop around Earth. Scientists have finally found them.

August 15, 2020

It’s Time to Redefine What Sustainable Fishing Means

Hundreds of thousands of marine mammals are killed each year by fishing gear. This should not be considered “sustainable.”

August 10, 2020