Ecology

Chinese companies press forward with plans to process coal into other fuels, despite water scarcity and excess climate change pollution

In Minnesota, high levels of mercury may date back to the 1700s

Nations agree that global action must be taken to improve the health of the deep ocean

I can't seem to go a day without hearing someone say, "Get to Cuba before all the Americans get there." What exactly is it that Americans will change once they get to Cuba?

As if rampant deforestation and poaching weren't bad enough, climate change will have a devastating effect on the majority of Madagascar's lemur species, most of them already imperiled, according to a paper published this week in Ecology and Evolution.

If left unconstrained, global warming could wreak havoc on the Big Apple

New tools and techniques reveal global warming's evil twin at work in seawater

Streams near large pig farms have high levels of harmful bacteria from animal feces

A reexamination of museum mastodon specimens provides evidence that that last ones were gone from what's called the Beringia region well before any humans showed up. Emily Schwing reports     

 

Life thrives even deep inside Earth and scientists are beginning to suspect extensive connections among those underground environments. David Biello reports

The number of imperiled wolves found only in the American Southwest climbed to 109 in 2014, marking the fourth consecutive year that the population of Mexican gray wolves has risen by at least 10 percent

The Arctic is changing fast