This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When you breathe in smoke from a wildfire, you’re probably inhaling more toxic chemicals than you realize. Pollution from power plants and vehicles, pesticides, fertilizers and chemicals in waste can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. To paint a clearer picture of how global climate change will affect Earth’s ecosystems, a team of 80 international research scientists set out to complete an unparalleled experiment: forcing the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. New research looks at how a climate extreme intensifies tensions between ocean life and people, and what can be done about it. The study was recently published in the Proceedings…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The spring of 2019 opened with a deep chill across Cascadia. An Arctic air mass poured past the 49th parallel, simultaneously jacking up energy consumption and straining energy supplies in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a historic first, the United Nations will host the inaugural Food Systems Summit on Thursday, uniting global leaders in a drive to find novel ways to produce healthy fare for the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On Dec. 1, 2021, California triggered headlines heard around the world when officials announced how much water suppliers would be getting from the State Water Project. “California water districts to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. California is preparing for a third straight year of drought, and officials are tightening limits on water use to levels never seen so early in the water year. Most of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Residential energy use represents roughly one-fifth of annual greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. A team of researchers used data from 60 million individual United States households to look…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Arctic Ocean has been getting warmer since the beginning of the 20th century – decades earlier than records suggest – due to warmer water flowing into the delicate polar…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If you’ve pumped gas at a U.S. service station over the past decade, you’ve put biofuel in your tank. Thanks to the federal Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS, almost all…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Susan Ruffo wants to change the conversation around saving the world’s oceans. “Really, we should talk about how the oceans are saving us,” the UN Foundation’s Senior Advisor for Ocean…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In and around the tangled roots of the forest floor, fungi and bacteria grow with trees, exchanging nutrients for carbon in a vast, global marketplace. Mapping these relationships could help…