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Resilience
mouse plants
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Meet the mice who make the forest

Scientists are unearthing a quiet truth about the woods: Where trees grow, or don’t, depends in part on the quirky decisions of small mammals.
Solutions
eelgrass restoration in Virginia
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The grass is greener in Virginia

Once decimated by disease, eelgrass is now recovering in the state’s lagoons after scientists spent decades trying to restore it.
Impacts
climate-related species displacement

Shoots and leaves: the shotgun scientist who hunts moving trees

As forests evolve in the face of climate crisis, some surprising methods are being used to track how species migrate.

Impacts
For species that rely on wind, climate change won't be a breeze
therevelator.org

For species that rely on wind, climate change won't be a breeze

Plants that depend on wind for pollination or seed dispersal may face challenges as warming temperatures force species to shift their ranges, according to a new study.
Resilience
assisted tree migration & climate

Trees can’t move fast enough to escape a warming climate. Should we help them?

Concerned about trees' slow migration patterns, some ecologists are spreading seeds themselves. Critics fear they are playing God.

Newsletter
Conserving wildlife is key to tropical forests’ carbon storage, study finds
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Conserving wildlife is key to tropical forests’ carbon storage, study finds

"People realize that forests are the lungs of the earth. But we must also be mindful that wildlife is the blood of the forest."

Resilience
Plant communities roar back after rat removal from Pacific islands
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Plant communities roar back after rat removal from Pacific islands

Plant numbers have surged in a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean following the eradication of invasive rats that gobbled up seeds and gnawed away at vegetation, a new study has found.

ORIGINAL REPORTING
The EPA building in Washington DC with several columns and glass pained doors and windows.

EPA’s direction under Trump draws criticism from former agency head

Wind turbines viewed from above situated in green agricultural fields.

Trump’s clean energy rollback puts U.S. manufacturers on edge

Greenpeace sign hanging on a wire with a tropical background.

Greenpeace faces financial peril in high-stakes lawsuit

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Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

Community activists plead to be heard through “closed doors” outside nation’s top energy conference

Climate scientist Michael Mann speaks at a podium with a porjection of the famous hockey Stick climate graph.

A climate scientist’s legal win just got flipped on its head

Gloved hands holding a globe of the earth with a small plant growing from the top.

Trump administration seeks to reframe climate change as beneficial

CLIMATE
A multiracial group of protesters hold signs in support of science.

Trump administration moves to dismantle EPA’s science office

Four white boats traveling on river beside Big Ben in London

UK seeks climate alliance with China amid Trump’s rollback of green policies