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How volcanic eruptions may hold the key to averting the climate crisis

 Environment
• February 5, 2020

A podcast exploring whether solar geo-engineering is a viable solution to the climate crisis

Artemisa Xabriabá (right), 17-year-old indigenous climate activist from Brazil. Artemisa became an activist at age 7, when she helped to reforest 37 acres in the lands of her native community who lives on the left bank of the São Francisco River, in the state of Minas Gerais, southeastern Brazil. Credit: Maria Paula Rubiano

Unrecognized Latin American ‘Gretas’ struggle to bring climate strikes home

 Environment
• September 24, 2019

A region most vulnerable to climate change was barely visible during the Global Climate Strike.

A new pest threatens the olive harvest of Palestine

In Palestine, an iconic tree suffers, too

 Environment
• July 19, 2019

Climate change is decimating the economically crucial olive harvest — and farmers lack the resources to fight back.

An imam sits in a chair preparing to wash his hands before prayer, while another man stands nearby with a microphone, and a third man sits on the floor holding a cup of water.

Reading the Quran with ‘green glasses’

 Environment
• July 18, 2019

How one religious leader finds environmental roots in Islamic tradition

This is an image of different species of coral captured by Jimmy Chang

Freezing corals to safeguard their future

 Environment
• May 1, 2019

Researchers are racing to preserve coral larvae for future restoration projects — and cryopreservation could be one solution

A close-up photo of water splashing out of an outdoor water fountain.

Climate change could leave utilities in hot water

 Environment
• January 30, 2019

Warming temperatures are a breeding ground for vulnerabilities in water distribution systems. A new study tackles challenges with maintaining and engineering water systems for a hotter future.

Two people look at a cellphone on the side of a road as a large wildfire burns in the background.

Today’s children will inherit a climate-changed planet. Can they handle it?

 Environment
• January 14, 2019

Children are already experiencing “eco-anxiety” — and psychiatrists don’t really know how to help them cope

View of Earth from space, dust flowing from Africa west toward the Americas.

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… dust?

 Environment
• December 12, 2018

Airborne dust is a climate force to be reckoned with — only scientists aren’t sure whether it’s helping cool down or warm up the planet.

The curious case of the disappearing maple

 Environment
• December 5, 2018

Climate change is a lead suspect

Two people on a boat watch a polar bear walk on snowy ground.

Does human recreation in the Arctic put polar bears at risk?

 Environment
• November 9, 2018

Arctic activities could hurt polar bears, but it won’t matter if sea ice keeps melting

Two windmills stand in a field

Rural America is on the frontlines of low-emissions electricity

 Environment
• October 15, 2018

They’re proving that energy can be cheap as well as green

Forty-eight years on an island with wolves

 Environment
• July 23, 2018

With just two wolves left, Rolf Peterson is pushing for a genetic rescue. He’s about to get it

Ancient humans may have shaped the planet with fire and rice

 Environment
• July 20, 2018

Did early humans jump-start global warming?

Running out of daylight

 Environment
• July 4, 2018

How a fiction novelist has chosen optimism when writing about climate change

Watching trees to track climate change

 Environment
• June 25, 2018

Kerissa Battle’s enthusiasm for nature is contagious. She’s getting New Yorkers outdoors to track climate change

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