Is There Good News for Monarch Butterflies? Scientists Disagree
Last month, government officials met in Washington, DC, for the first Monarch Butterfly Summit, just as the milkweed in the “Monarch Waystations” that are…
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130-Year-Old Menus Show How Climate Change Affects What We Eat
This story originally appeared in Hakai Magazine and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Vancouver, British Columbia, is nothing short of a seafood…
Human Activity Creates Systemic Warming Pool in the Pacific Ocean; Causing Loss of Aquatic Wildlife,…
Scientists have revealed that human activity — and not natural climatic variations — is causing systemic warming in a pool of water present in the northeast…
Human Activity Creates Warming Pool in the Pacific, Hurting Marine Ecology
Scientists have revealed that human activity — and not natural climatic variations — is causing systemic warming in a pool of water present in the northeast…
A Warming Climate Takes a Toll on the Vanishing Rio Grande
Meanwhile invasive Russian olive and tamarisk trees have moved in beneath the canopy, all fire-prone species. Fires in the bosque were once virtually…
What Polar Bear Genomes May Reveal About Life in a Low-Ice Arctic
Shapiro’s Nature Ecology study also focused on what may have happened to other polar bear genomes during periods of low ice—in this case, around 120,000 or…
The Nightmare Politics and Sticky Science of Hacking the Climate
And exactly how much carbon they remove can vary quite a bit based on variables like the health of the vegetation. “One of the major risks of some of these…
The FAA Says SpaceX Can’t Expand Its Texas Launch Site—Yet
After months of suspense, the Federal Aviation Administration has finally weighed in on the environmental effects of the planned expansion of SpaceX’s…
Reshuffled Rivers Bolster the Amazon’s Hyper-Biodiversity
From the window of a passenger plane flying over the Amazon, the view is breathtaking. “It’s just miles across of river and river islands,” said Lukas…
The Last-Ditch Effort to Save Wild Salmon
But outside the walls of Warm Springs, so much is beyond the recovery team’s control. By nature, salmon transcend borders and boundaries, which exposes them…