Category: Science and Environment

A building can be a home for people, but to wildlife it may also resemble a cliff, a tree cavity, a cave, a warm shelter or even a new feeding … Read More

A hurricane can pass in a day. A heatwave may last a week. A flood can recede within hours. Yet the ecological consequences of such events can remain visible long … Read More

Walk through a forest and the most obvious structures are above ground: trunks, leaves, streams, flowers and animals. Yet many of the processes that keep that landscape functioning happen where … Read More

Walk through a city park, visit a farm, watch birds around a lake, or look at insects gathering around a light, and it can be difficult to believe that biodiversity … Read More

Climate change is often described through temperature records, melting glaciers, rising seas and extreme weather. But another signal is unfolding across the planet in a less visible system: the movement … Read More

For much of modern science, the ground beneath our feet was treated mainly as a place to extract resources, build foundations, bury waste or draw water. That view is changing. … Read More

A landscape can appear almost unchanged while the systems beneath it are moving in a very different direction. A road can remain level to the eye while the ground beneath … Read More

A forest does not issue a warning when drought begins. A river does not send an alert when its biological community starts changing. Coral reefs do not display a thermometer … Read More

The Earth does not send warnings in words. It sends them through temperatures, ocean heat, changing ice, shifting water reserves, vegetation, atmospheric chemistry and the growing frequency or intensity of … Read More

Earth’s energy story begins far beyond power plants and electricity grids. Every ecosystem, weather system and human energy system ultimately operates within a larger flow of energy, much of it … Read More