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406 articles-
Here’s What Nuclear Testing Does to the Earth—and Us
With trials of atomic weapons set to resume, we recall the environmental and health damage wrought by such testing -
Hurricane Melissa Could Threaten Some Species with Extinction
As the super strong storm lashes the Caribbean, vulnerable species and habitats lie in its path -
How This Haunting Hurricane Illusion Forms
Powerful storms like Hurricane Melissa foment an odd phenomenon called the “stadium effect” at their centers -
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
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We’re All Connected
Welcome to the Climates Issue -
Stalagmites Offer Clues to Maya Mystery
Chemical fingerprints point to reason for collapse -
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 -
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