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Climate Change

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Food & Environment

Cleaning up cow burps to combat global warming

New tools for lowering methane emissions from livestock are on their way

Photograph of vegetation-covered mountain rising above desert lowlands.
Living World

Hunting sky islands for genetic clues to climate resilience

OPINION: Isolated mountaintops are hotbeds of evolutionary adaptation and great places to study how climate change affects ecosystems

Photograph of a forest of conifers. A sign reads “ASCC TRANSITION.”
Food & Environment

Moving trees north to save the forests

As the world warms, trees in forests such as those in Minnesota will no longer be adapted to their local climates. That’s where assisted migration comes in.

Panoramic image of a fragment of Amazon forest with sectors of tree-covered and deforested land as well as a section with remains of forest that was burned.
Food & Environment

Losing the connection between the Andes and the Amazon: A price of peace in Colombia

The South American country, where the biodiversity of the Andes meets that of the Amazon, is losing the great natural wealth of some 1,500 square kilometers of forest each year, mainly in areas formerly under guerrilla control

Conceptual illustration shows a person speaking words that appear as aspects of the natural world, like plants and animals.
Society

Indigenous languages are founts of environmental knowledge

Peoples who live close to nature have a rich lore of plants, animals and landscapes embedded in their mother tongues — which may hold vital clues to protecting biodiversity

Photograph shows landscape of dead conifer trees with mountains behind them.
Food & Environment

Forests are under attack from invasive species

OPINION: International commerce and travel bring ecological destruction to the world’s most cherished natural places. We need to do more to stop the assault.

Photograph of a bat flying through the air with a large fruit in its mouth.
Food & Environment

As the climate changes, plants must shift their ranges. But can they?

Lots of them depend on fruit-eating birds and mammals to spread their seeds. But it’s debatable whether the animals — many in trouble themselves — can disperse seeds far and fast enough to keep pace with a warming world.

Photograph of a person standing in the waters at the beach, staring out at the ocean.
Living World

Our oceans’ future: Hot and troubled

OPINION: Ocean warming, acidification and deoxygenation due to climate change — as well as pollution and development — threaten our global waters, but disaster is far from inevitable

Underwater photograph of a green sea turtle.
Food & Environment

The case for ocean optimism

With the health of the ocean under threat, a rallying cry for marine conservation goes global. Here are some of the good-news stories.

Large algal bloom in the Barents Sea
Food & Environment

Marine wildlife is starting to suffocate

Global warming and agricultural runoff have driven the loss of oxygen in oceans around the world, with looming ecological consequences.

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