When the marine biologist Rachel Carson was a young girl, she discovered a fossilized shell while hiking around her family’s hi...
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Hannah Lewis couldn’t stop reading. She knew she was on to something. An article in her local paper described how, facing a prop...
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As summer fires continue to devastate huge areas of woodland in Spain, France and Portugal, and drought plagues Europe and the...
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Food plants intermingle on the second-floor rooftop of a house in Medan, the biggest city on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The...
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Across Russia, Europe, Indonesia, the Amazon Basin, North America, Australia, and beyond, we have watched fires blaze across lands...
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Even while drought is bringing many of Europe’s rivers to record lows and damaging biodiversity, the threat of catastrophic floo...
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On a recent summer morning near Camden, New Jersey, two divers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency hovered over a patch ...
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RAROTONGA, Cook Islands – Every Saturday, a group of Cook Islands Māori youth slide into scuba gear, grab sticks from the ironw...
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Peatlands and rainforests in the Congo Basin protect the planet by storing carbon. Now, in a giant leap backward for the climate, ...
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Underwater forests off Tasmania’s east coast used to be so dense they were marked as shipping hazards on nautical charts. Thrivi...
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The trees had stood for more than 1,000 years. Their sturdy roots clung to the crumbling mountainside. Their gnarled limbs reached...
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For thousands of years, bison herds thundered freely throughout the Chihuahuan Desert on both sides of what is now the U.S.-Mexico...
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We respectfully acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and learn, and pay respect to the First Nations Peoples and their elders, past, present and future.
