Climate Change

Rise of the reef doctors

Marine biologist Randi Rotjan tracks ocean health, seeking better diagnostics…

Chasing ghosts in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

Marine biologist Randi Rotjan studies specimens, dead or alive, in protected areas to learn more about reef recovery

Hurricane Irma wreaked havoc under the sea, too

The historic hurricane ravaged the United States’ only living barrier reef, says scientist who witnessed the damage

How to convince a climate change skeptic

In media coverage of ecological events, language and location matter

By Andrew Thurston | Boston University

Can scientists learn to make ‘nature forecasts’ just as we forecast the weather?

Environmental scientist Michael Dietze argues for ecological forecasting

The unique role fungi plays in climate change

Biologist Jennifer Talbot studies molds, mushrooms and other dirt-dwellers (and their impact on the environment)

Climate change and an “overlooked” nutrient: silica

Warmer winters could have consequences in temperate forests and beyond

Uniting against Executive Order on the Clean Power Plan

The grandson of a Pennsylvania coal miner — now an environmental scientist—says President Trump is wrong on coal