Topic

Environment

A group of people wearing yellow hard hats and vests stand near a demolition site.

Rethinking waste, one art project at a time

 Environment
• July 22, 2024

Artist Kaitlin Pomerantz is on a mission to repurpose the unused, forgotten fragments that glue society together  

Several cars sit on a flooded street

Southwest Philly: the next Atlantis?

 Environment
• July 18, 2024

The Eastwick neighborhood of Philly could experience monthly floods as soon as 2060 — a trend experts predict many other coastal cities will face in coming years

Image of David Holland

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 great blue heron standing in body of water and tall grasses

When city rivers get wild

 Environment
• June 13, 2024

How a floating wetland in the middle of the Chicago River has put nature and cleaner water back on the map for city residents

A portrait of mycologist Sigrid Jakob surrounded by different kinds of mushrooms, leaves, and equipment she uses to sequence them.

One woman’s mission to diversify and document New York City’s mushroom scene

 Environment
• May 6, 2024

Sigrid Jakob and other citizen mycologists are classifying fungal species before they disappear.

An image showing a glassfrog when its blood vessels are invisible and when they are visible.

Could frogs hold the secret to preventing blood clots in humans?

 Environment
• March 14, 2024

These tiny, transparent frogs clump their red blood cells together to blend into their surroundings — without ever forming deathly clots

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

Caught in the turmoil of war and climate change

 Environment
• March 7, 2024

Millions of Sub-Saharan Africans have been forced to flee their homes in recent years. Is it due to climate change or conflict? The government can't decide

When wildlife goes viral

 Environment
• February 19, 2024

What New Zealand’s bird of the century contest can teach us about conservation

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

An elephant named Happy stands upright looking at the cage enclosing her

Does the Constitution protect an elephant from unlawful detention?

 Environment
• January 13, 2024

What a bid to free a zoo elephant says about the evolving legal rights of animals

Visualization of plastic straws breaking down into smaller pieces of plastic.

Munching on plastic?

 Environment
• January 10, 2024

Microplastics are everywhere — including in our bodies. Here is what you need to know

Yellow mealworms, the larvae of the yellow mealworm beetle, sit in clear plastic bins across from containers of small white plastic beads.

Insect microbes face off against the plastic pollution crisis

 Environment
• January 4, 2024

Plastic-eating enzymes in the guts of mealworms are one of many bug-centric ideas being studied, but environmentalists say it dodges the real solution: use less

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