Environment
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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 Sargassum 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 -
You Can Help NASA Track Hurricane Damage
Cell phone photos can help in recovery efforts -
This Forest Survived a Megafire
Saving it involved destroying it twice -
Cities Obey the Laws of Living Things
All towns, big and small, are animals -
Extreme Heat Will Change You
High temperatures can alter our bodies at the molecular level
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They Came for Climate Science. Then the Storms Came.
The administration’s cuts to climate research are destroying decades of science—and life-saving forecasts
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Is Solving the Plastic Problem a Moral Issue?
The Dalai Lama, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Vatican weigh in -
Can Humanity Stem the Plastic Tide?
Plastic pollution is costing the world $1.5 trillion a year in health-related losses -
Orchids Thrive Among the Dead
Cemeteries are a gravely overlooked habitat for wild orchids in Europe -
Paradise Lost
A dying glacier harbors mysterious species and ecosystems yet to be understood -
Our Gut Feeling About Forests
Some of us might be innate biodiversity detectors