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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

A juvenile scallop and an adult scallop on the palm of a bayman's hand

Long Island’s scallops are dying out. Scientists are hunting for answers.

 Environment
• August 14, 2023

Unless researchers can pull off a genetic rescue, the triple-whammy of warmer temperatures, oxygen-starved waters and a newly discovered parasite may soon obliterate the few survivors

Joe Hollins lying down in grass facing Jonathan the giant tortoise to feed him from a metal bowl with white building in background

The tortoise and the caretaker

 Environment
• August 7, 2023

Meet Joe Hollins, the recently retired veterinarian who cared for a record-breaking 190-year-old tortoise named Jonathan in his remote island home

An endangered blue and red striped candy darter in a river.

This freshwater fish is facing an identity crisis

 Environment
• July 24, 2023

Efforts to restore candy darter populations are underway, but their genes live on in other fish and raise thorny questions for conservation biologists

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

When it comes to mental health, there might be something in the air

 Environment
• April 4, 2023

Scientists are unraveling air pollution's effects on mental health

Two hands with grey fingerless gloves hold up the ridged underside of a white oyster mushroom

A mushroom walk on Staten Island

 Environment
• March 18, 2023

The New York Mycological Society is a “mushroom club for anyone”

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