For decades, we've catalogued what we're losing to climate change. A sweeping new study offers something harder to find — evidence that one of the planet's most vital coastal ecosystems is actually winning.
Resilience
A 20-year record reveals an estuary tipping toward a saltier, more acidic state. These conditions threaten its hammerhead shark nursery and the aquifer that supplies Miami’s drinking water.
Analysis pinpoints areas most vulnerable to hotter, drier weather causing ground to shrink and drag foundations down.
The Trump administration’s top water official heads to Capitol Hill as the Interior Department readies politically wrenching decisions for the drought-shriveled Colorado River.
The arid Barind region was transformed by aquifer wells but now the water system is collapsing under the pressure of the climate crisis and decades of extraction.
In the nation’s fastest-warming state with a multi-billion-dollar fishing industry and storm-threatened coastal communities, scientists say the federal government’s decommission of a deepwater sensor system is ill-timed and wrong-headed.
U.S. withdrawal means Europe is a lifeline for ocean research, although a poorer one.
At the Museum of Unnatural Disasters, members of Congress, disaster survivors, and activists are bringing their worries about preparedness to the seat of power.
Cold storage and logistics body warns food supplies are at risk from fuel shortages, cyber attacks, and extreme weather.
In this episode of The Great Simplification, Nate Hagens is joined by regenerative change practitioner Brett KenCairn for a conversation that reframes the dominant narrative about climate change.
I moved to Sicily from the UK — here’s what I’ve learned about keeping your home cool during a heatwave.
From the suburbs to the barrier islands, the state’s local cooperatives are using aggregated battery systems to weather outages and protect consumers’ wallets.
Some will question its credibility — but the alternative future to the one imagined in the World Justice Report is far more bleak.
Our plan is radical — but by transforming how we live on a finite planet, nearly everyone gains, says Thomas Piketty and researchers from the World Inequality Lab.
Days after the U.S. said it would kill a network of ocean monitors, European officials pledged to invest more in their version, calling it a “necessity.”
The National Center for Atmospheric Research is the latest example of how the Trump administration’s efforts to chainsaw the federal government can happen too fast for the courts or Congress to counter.
Even a huge snowpack during the coming winter would only give the river basin states less than two years of storage before reservoirs return to historic lows.
The Trump administration is dismantling a $368 million deep-ocean observation system that monitors marine ecosystems and the effects of climate change.
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