
Saving Coral Reefs with Dental Tech
Dental scanners could help researchers diagnose stressed-out baby corals

Saving Coral Reefs with Dental Tech
Dental scanners could help researchers diagnose stressed-out baby corals

China and Russia Continue to Block Protections for Antarctica
For the sixth year in a row, nations failed to agree on any new marine protected areas in the fragile Southern Ocean around Antarctica


Brazil’s New President Vows to Save Amazon Forests
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says he’ll stop illegal destruction of rain forests allowed under former president Jair Bolsonaro. Will Brazilians support him?

Drones Sample Rare Specimens from Cliffs and Other Dangerous Places
Flying robots help researchers identify and protect threatened plants and other species in places that are inaccessible to humans

These Technologies Help You Live Lightly on a Fragile Planet
Ecologically and socially friendly “convivial technologies” help Earth and us

Detroit Has a Large Population of Ring-Necked Pheasants, and They Are Striking
The Motor City is perhaps the only large city in the country with groups of the beautiful nonnative fowl running around its fields and lots.

Fossil-Fuel Money Will Undermine Stanford’s New Sustainability School
Stanford University’s Doerr School of Sustainability will take energy industry donations, which will warp priorities and research agendas

AI Diagnoses Devastating Olive Tree Infection
Predicting severity can help address deadly effects to olive groves

It’s Getting Harder for Forests to Recover from Disasters
As the world warms, forests are becoming less resilient in the face of fires, droughts and other disruptive events

Meet the Giant Sequoia, the ‘Super Tree’ Built to Withstand Fire
Mammoth redwood trees have evolved along with fire, but humans are disrupting that delicate balance

How Climate Change Is Leaving Some Species with ‘Nowhere Left to Go’
From the depths of the ocean to the peaks of mountains, species are moving out of their historical homes in search of cooler conditions

Poem: ‘Vaulted Seeds,’ after the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
Science in meter and verse