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The climate mathematician

 Environment
• June 25, 2024

As the world warms, scientist David Holland is building a weather forecast for the polar ice caps

A woman with a pained expression on her face, pulling her shirt down slightly and scratching skin near her neck

When climate change gets under your skin

 Health
• June 18, 2024

Floods, fires, droughts and other climate calamities are contributing to a global increase in eczema

A close up image of a cicada

Don’t freak out, but the cicadas are coming — lots of them

 Environment
• March 13, 2024

Billions will likely emerge across the eastern half of the US this spring, but climate change is a wild card

Warming waters entice ‘flesh-eating bacteria’ further north

 Environment
• March 8, 2024

The risks are low but rising, so cook your shellfish and cover your cuts before swimming

Young children play with a handmade game that involves colorful people-shaped pieces and a mountain

How gaming can fight climate change

 Environment
• January 26, 2024

Games that model the future can inspire hope and encourage creative minds to redefine solutions.

Andrew Coté, a NYC-based beekeeper, stands at his booth at the Union Square Farmers Market. He is surrounded by jars of honey.

Losing the scent

 Environment
• January 25, 2024

A new study suggests air pollution is changing flowers’ scents, throwing bees off-course

Framed by a clear blue sky, a woman plants dune grass on a beach in New York City.

NYC students make ‘shore’ Coney Island is safe from storms by planting grasses

 Video
• May 30, 2023

Students from three schools participated in a program to create ‘living shorelines’ along the coast to protect communities from storm surge and flooding

Global seaweed farming could be a boon, but only if it scales sustainably

 Environment
• May 18, 2023

For all of kelp’s potential benefits to people and the planet, its success will depend on cultural shifts

A botanist peers through a tiny magnifying glass to observe a small piece of moss. He is surrounded by tall phragmites, a type of invasive plant.

On Staten Island, flood control plans threaten a haven for rare plants

 Environment
• May 5, 2023

Ten years after Superstorm Sandy struck the east coast, naturalists worry a government-funded storm mitigation plan will wipe out a historic ecosystem

Why illness spikes when water supplies dwindle

 Health
• March 10, 2023

From Mexico to Mississippi, extreme weather events are increasing the risk of intestinal sickness outbreaks

Damaged homes line a street in the wake of Hurricane Ian.

Hurricane Ian wrecked southwest Florida. Why weren’t there more warnings in Spanish?

 Environment
• February 20, 2023

Delayed evacuation orders and a dearth of Spanish-language weather programming left many in the Hispanic community unprepared

Twenty-five people stand around some tables on a sandy pier in Brooklyn, New York. Behind the tables is a park ringed with some trees.

Restoring New York harbor with a billion oysters

 Audio
• February 17, 2023

A local New York City nonprofit is working to make the region a shellfish haven after decades of declining oyster populations

A photograph of the activist/artist Sarah Cameron Sunde in a red wind breaker, standing on the beach in her climate change performance.

The transformative power of environmental art

 Environment
• October 14, 2022

Sarah Cameron Sunde’s performance art contemplates our interconnection with nature

A picture of a blue sign with white lettering outside of a power plant. The sign says "ITM Power. Energy Storage | Clean Fuel. Hydrogen Fuel Station."

Hydrogen could help solve Europe’s gas addiction

 Tech
• August 17, 2022

The invasion of Ukraine has shown that reliance on Russian natural gas is an unstable strategy for Europe. Hydrogen power is one tool that could help

People protesting climate change inaction

Does ‘climate anxiety’ belong in the DSM?

 Health
• March 21, 2022

Psychotherapists have different opinions about making climate anxiety a diagnosis

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