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The Mystery of the Disappearing Seabird

December 17, 2019

An illustration of a kittiwake flying over the sea

History’s Greatest Sea Is Dying

Peter Schwartzstein

December 14, 2019

Enormous piles of trash are seen on a Lebanese beach.

A Major but Little-Known Supporter of Climate Denial: Freight Railroads

December 13, 2019

Dozens of States Want to Keep America’s Broken Climate Promise

December 9, 2019

The climate-change activist Greta Thunberg delivers a speech at a climate-change protest march, as the COP25 climate summit is held in Madrid, Spain, on December 6, 2019.

The Environmental Catastrophe in Your Joint

December 9, 2019

Marijuana joints

Why Your Kid Loves the Garbage Truck So Much

December 6, 2019

Why Mammals Are So Good at Hearing (And Chewing)

December 5, 2019

An artist's rendering of a new mammalian species found in China

5 Big Trends That Increased Earth’s Carbon Pollution

December 3, 2019

A coal-fired power plant in Kosovo release smoke into the sky.

John Kerry’s New Bipartisan, Star-Studded ‘War’ on Climate Change

December 2, 2019

How Roadkill Became an Environmental Disaster

November 26, 2019

Cars drive over a highway-sized anteater snout

What America Lost When It Lost the Bison

November 18, 2019

Bison grazing in a field

So Has the Green New Deal Won Yet?

November 15, 2019

Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speak outside the United States Capitol

Navigating the ‘Old Boys’ Club’ of Science, With a Friend

November 15, 2019

An illustration of two friends on top of a microscope looking at plankton.

How to Cut U.S. Carbon Pollution by Nearly 40 Percent in 10 Years

November 13, 2019

A rainbow over the Capitol on Election Day 2018

Planting a ‘Trail of Giants’

November 11, 2019

Giant Sequoia seedlings, planted at Otis College of Art and Design, in Los Angeles

What to Do With That Rotting Pumpkin Corpse

Linda Poon and CityLab

November 10, 2019

A squirrel eats a leftover pumpkin in Chicago, Illinois.

The Secret Identity of a Coyote-Like Creature

November 8, 2019

A group of canids that carry DNA from a nearly extinct wolf species

A Crucial Blind Spot in Veterinary Medicine

November 7, 2019

We Are Running Out of Air

November 6, 2019

A white foam of chemical pollution blankets New Delhi's Yamuna river.

Trump Isn’t a Climate Denier. He’s Worse.

November 5, 2019

President Donald Trump holds up a "Trump digs coal" sign as he arrives to speak during a Make America Great Again rally at Big Sandy Superstore Arena in Huntington, West Virginia, on August 3, 2017.

The Grizzlies Are Coming

Helen Santoro and High Country News

November 3, 2019

An Invader’s Less-Than-Elegant Move From Water to Land

November 2, 2019

The Smoldering State

October 30, 2019

The Kincade Fire has incinerated more than 120 square miles since it began a week ago.

Deadly Algae Are Creeping Northward

October 29, 2019

An illustration of sea animals cut out of a red tide

The Chickens That Are Surrogates for Rare Breeds

October 22, 2019

A pure-heritage-breed broiler chicken entirely reconstituted from frozen genetic material, surrounded by brown layer chicks.

A Textbook Evolutionary Story About Moths and Bats Is Wrong

October 21, 2019

A garden tiger moth

What Ballooning Carbon Emissions Will Do to Trees

Daniel Grossman

October 18, 2019

A person stands atop a tower in the Amazon.

Start Planting Trees

October 13, 2019

Planting trees as part of a green initiative in the southern California town of Redlands.

How to Teach a Frog to Love

Stephanie Pain and Knowable Magazine

October 12, 2019

A northern corroboree frog is squirted with hormone.

This Is What Adapting to Climate Change Looks Like

October 11, 2019

In this December 16, 2017, file photo provided by the Santa Barbara County Fire Department, flames burn near power lines in Sycamore Canyon near West Mountain Drive in Montecito, California.

Cows Need Friends to Be Happy

November 2019 Issue

A Lesson for Ravens: Don’t Eat the Tortoises

Thom van Dooren

October 8, 2019

The remains of a desert tortoise near Joshua Tree National Park, in California's southern desert.

Five Radical Climate Policies That Most Americans Actually Like

October 7, 2019

Young people protest outside the San Francisco Federal Building during a Climate Strike march.

Squirrels Are Professional Eavesdroppers

Linda Poon and CityLab

September 29, 2019

A squirrel sits in a tree next to a birdhouse.

The Cat With a Campus Wrapped Around His Paw

September 27, 2019

The Oceans We Know Won’t Survive Climate Change

September 25, 2019

Vast piles of dead fish in Rio de Janeiro