Environment
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What an Oyster Hears
Listening for the sounds of coastal restoration.
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When Disease Comes for the Scientist
The nurse told him: You have malaria—the kind that kills you. So why wasn’t it killing the birds?
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The Ocean Is Missing Its Rivers
For billions of years, rivers connected continents to the sea. Then we came along.
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The Challenge of Blue Carbon
Wetlands store a lot of carbon—but turning that into a business isn’t easy.
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This Candle Becomes a Planter for Seed Diversity
Celebrate Earth Day with Nautilus’ first-ever member-exclusive product.
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How Can We Stop the CO2 That Plants Store from Leaking Back Into the Air?
One question for Eli Yablonovich, an applied physicist at UC Berkeley.
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The Highest Truth
Even if we can change a memory, should we? It’s a profound question. It’s about the core of humanity. At times, science can reduce us to machines. Under the hood, we have the same parts, more or less. The neurochemicals that fuel the brain, including the creation and recall of memories, work pretty much the […]
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What Nuclear War Means for the Ocean
Nuclear winter is just the beginning.
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What Plants Are Saying About Us
Your brain is not the root of cognition.
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Is Earth Running Out of Freshwater?
One question for Matthew Birkhold, author of “Chasing Icebergs: How Frozen Freshwater Can Save the Planet.”
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The Mystery of the Healthy Coral Reef
A reef off the coast of Honduras should be a disaster. Instead it’s thriving.
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Why We Need Muck to Fight Rising Sea Levels
We’ve starved marshes of their essential sediment—now can we repair them in time?
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To Save the Deep Ocean, We Should Mine the Moon
The moon contains a lot of mineral wealth—but how practical is mining it?
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It’s High Time to Protect Our High Seas
The oceans belong to no one. But we can all take part to protect them.
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Two Distinguished Scientists on How to Rescue Humanity
The Anthropocene demands a massive realignment of priorities.
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We Only Think We Flush It Away
8 waste products that come back to haunt us.
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Humans Are Overzealous Whale Morticians
We hastily dispose of dead whales, ignoring the ecological significance of their carcasses.
