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A tree infested with the tell-tale white, fluffy egg sacs of the hemlock woolly adelgid, an invasive species spreading through the Northeast U.S that can kill ecologically important hemlock trees. Credit: Nicholas A. Tonelli | CC BY 2.0

Spurred by climate change, invasive species threat looms over northeast U.S.

 Environment
• January 15, 2021

Global warming tips the scales in favor of invaders in the region

Farm on the edge of northern Chesapeake Bay, with little vegetation buffer and riprap shoreline

For coastal farmers, climate change rubs salt in their wounds

 Environment
• December 23, 2020

Spurred by global warming and development, saltwater intrusion is a growing threat to coastal agriculture

Corn damaged by drought

CRISPR could help crops survive climate change

 Environment
• November 19, 2018

Plants have never experienced where our climate is going — one researcher wants to prepare them for the worst.

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

Ancient humans may have shaped the planet with fire and rice

 Environment
• July 20, 2018

Did early humans jump-start global warming?

The Ice Age that never happened

 Environment
• April 27, 2017

Global cooling forecasts from the 1970s don’t discredit today’s climate science

Hot pavement, cool ideas

 Environment
• November 28, 2016

Finding alternatives to sweltering asphalt is harder than it looks

A greener concrete jungle

 Environment
• July 25, 2016

Why reducing our carbon footprint means changing our cement

A bridge to nowhere?

 Environment
• June 6, 2016

Natural gas may be delaying the arrival of clean energy

The wrong kinds of trees could make global warming worse

 Blogs
• April 19, 2016

Planting homogenous new forests isn’t going to save the planet

Recklessly playing God with the planet

 Environment
• June 3, 2015

A government-sponsored scientific panel called for more research on geoengineering — here’s why we shouldn’t even consider it

Drawing outside the lines

 Environment
• November 12, 2014

Stymied scientists disagree about how to drive home global warming lessons

Big consequences from tiny life

 Environment
• October 27, 2014

Research digs deeper into the effects of soil microbes on a warming environment

Wet beaches drown sea turtles

 Life Science
• October 24, 2014

Climate change makes beaches wetter, hurting the survival of sea turtle hatchlings

On the ground: New challenges for the River Thames

 Environment Blog
• January 23, 2014

Will a warming climate and rising sea levels make the riverbanks too unsafe to live?

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