Environment

Researchers are building equations for vegetation processes that might improve climate models

Problematic piles of <i>Sargassum</i> could serve as useful raw material for a variety of products

An ambitious mission seeks to map the flow of crucial chemicals through marine food webs in far-flung oceanic gyres

This visionary new initiative would do more than save the ocean. It would regenerate it.

An aging Earth, like an aging body, is increasingly vulnerable to heat’s fatal strikes

Each leviathan of the deep has a signature that can be used to forecast it

Saving it involved destroying it twice

Cell phone photos can help in recovery efforts

All towns, big and small, are animals

High temperatures can alter our bodies at the molecular level

During the Permian, Earth was without climate guardrails

This ride through plastic waste emerges with hope