Insects are critically important to our world: They bolster the global food supply through pollination, recycle organic waste, support food webs that sustain countless species, and more. Yet they are...
Pennsylvania logged 852 severe weather reports from March through June – more than double the 30-year average. A meteorologist explains what keeps the storms coming.
Long before synthetic fertilizers, the global guano trade reshaped farming, fueled American expansion and exposed the hidden human costs of feeding the modern world.
Rachelle Vance was determined to see another flamingo. Two months after Hurricane Idalia swept a pink wave of the gangly birds through Florida and beyond in August 2023, the photographer from Crystal...
Wastewater from Pennsylvania’s oil and gas wells is salty and radioactive, and doesn’t suppress dust. Two researchers explain why it keeps ending up on rural roads.
A National Academy of Sciences report examined the latest advances in extreme event attribution science. As four of the authors explain, the type of disaster makes a difference.
Every bird, and every community, depends on healthy habitat. Forests, grasslands, wetlands, and coasts sustain birds throughout their life cycles while also supporting clean water, resilient...
In the early 1990s, biologist Alejandro Simeone was walking the beaches of Viña del Mar, in central Chile, when he encountered a scene that would end up defining his career: dead Humboldt Penguins...
In the early 1990s, biologist Alejandro Simeone was walking the beaches of Viña del Mar, in central Chile, when he encountered a scene that would end up defining his career: dead Humboldt Penguins...
Across the globe, birdsong is stunningly diverse—from the slow trills of a Northern Cardinal, to the flat whistle of a Three-wattled Bellbird, to the chirps and buzzes of a Barn Swallow. Behind...
Many sustainability programs may be aiming at the wrong target because most entrepreneurs won’t become environmental activists.
Native religions are tied to living landscapes, not points on a map. A scholar of Indigenous studies explains why reducing the protected area has profound religious and cultural consequences.