Newsletter Photo by Sean on Unsplash Iron fertilization isn't going to save us The controversial geoengineering technique can defer, at best, a few years’ worth of emissions. And that’s ignoring the potential side effects.
Resilience Credit: Jeff Hester / Ocean Image Bank The trillion-dollar auction to save the world Ocean creatures soak up huge amounts of humanity’s carbon mess. Should we value them like financial assets?
Causescommons.wikimedia.org The New World: Envisioning life after climate change Scientists increasingly agree on how much warming the planet will experience. This is what it might look like.
Politicscommons.wikimedia.org Promise and peril at the bottom of the sea How a mining company and a regulator are balancing billions of dollars in profits against the future of the Pacific.
Impactswww.flickr.com World leaders confront 'ocean emergency' at U.N. conference Delegates from more than 20 nations are meeting in Lisbon to draft a treaty on protecting the world’s oceans.
Impacts An ecologist organizes the world Jane Lubchenco helped change the field of ecology by making the science useful to society.
Impacts publicintegrity.org Gulf shrimpers fight for their livelihoods in a fertilizer-fueled dead zone ‘When the dead zone comes, it just kills everything.’
Op-ed: “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you” — disabling environments in Cancer Alley and the Ohio River Valley