Seagrass Gardening
From tiny seeds come big results: replanting seagrass meadows that help fish, protect coastlines, and absorb climate-heating carbon dioxide. Chris Patrick is optimistic about seagrass…
Nature & Environment
Virginia Once Drained and Dried Peatlands, but Now Eyes Them as Carbon Sinks
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Warm Seawater Encroaches on Major Antarctic Ice Shelf
In unprecedented detail, new research illuminates the seasonal flow of warm water toward the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf. Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans The vast…
Saving Living Jewels: One Woman’s Mission to Shine a Light on the Ornamental Fish Trade
Marine biologist Monica Biondo has spent more than a decade studying the multibillion-dollar market for these colorful fish, which pulls thousands of species from the…
Tree Islands ‘Restore Biodiversity’ in Oil Palm Farms
Environmentalists have long worried about the negative impacts of oil palm cultivation, especially on biodiversity when forests are burned and turned into plantations. Now researchers…
The Gaza War is an Environmental Catastrophe
Toxic waste, water-borne diseases, vast carbon emissions: Dr. Mariam Abd El Hay describes the myriad harms of Israel’s assault to the region’s ecosystems. “Ever-worsening shortages…
Lithium: The White Gold of a Controversial Transition
Imagine a metal so light that it floats on water yet so powerful that it could fuel our society’s future. Once a relatively obscure element,…
Six Lessons From the World’s Deadliest Environmental Disaster
The world’s deadliest environmental disaster got its start in 1958. Its effects are still being felt today, more than six decades later. It wasn’t an…
The Rights of Nature Prevail Again in Ecuador
Jose Martín Ovando suddenly halts in his tracks and crouches down along the steep forest path shrouded in mist, pulling out a magnifying glass from…
What Does ‘Recyclable’ Really Mean?
Most of the products in the typical kitchen use plastics that are virtually impossible to recycle. The film that acts as a lid on Dole…
In the Pan Amazon, environmental liabilities of old mining have become economic liabilities
Although new mines use state-of-the-art technology, the industry also has a legacy of ageing containment dams at older mines, particularly shuttered mines that no longer…
Solar farming: How does agrivoltaic use affect crop yields?
Climate solutions that rely on agrivoltaics—the practice of integrating solar panels into farm fields and ranches—can offer benefits because they boost clean energy production while…
Inching toward a global treaty on plastic pollution
Nicola Jones Delegates from 175 nations are working on an international agreement that would tackle the vast amounts of plastic waste in the environment. A…