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David Quammen portrait

How it feels to predict a pandemic: Interview with David Quammen, author of Spillover

By Dan Drollette Jr | Biosecurity, Climate Change, Special Topics

industrial landscape, smoke, high tension wires

“We’re Number… 24.” US near back of pack among developed nations on environment

By Emily Holden | Climate Change

National Guard mobile COVID-19 test site

National Guard: Between protests and pandemics, no room for hurricane season?

By Rebecca Leber | Analysis

sunset, waves, ocean

By 2050, climate change in the ocean could be seven times faster

By Graham Readfearn | Climate Change

old woodcut of cowboy lassoing calf

Coronavirus: Accelerating the rise of imitation meat?

By Matt Simon | Analysis, Climate Change

Is Amazon rainforest going from carbon sink to carbon source?

By Fred Pearce | Climate Change

dolphins swim at night, bioluminesce

The latest challenge to enforcing coronavirus rules at the beach: bioluminescent dolphins

By Mario Koran | Climate Change

miner in permafrost tunnel in Alaska

Scientists are racing to understand permafrost before it’s gone

By Madeline Ostrander | Climate Change

The Alaska National Guard has been used to fight extensive Alaskan wildfires. (Photo by Sherman Hogue/Fort Wainwright Public Affairs Office.)

Brian Brettschneider: How climate change has already arrived in the Arctic

By John Krzyzaniak | Climate Change, Interviews

A forest test plot, where snow was removed to see the effects of the lack of this insulating blanket. (Image courtesy of Pamela Templer.)

Shorter, warmer winters, less snow. What next? Q&A with biologist Pamela Templer    

By Dan Drollette Jr | Climate Change, Interviews

How we know the Earth is warming and humans are responsible

By Dana Nuccitelli | Analysis, Climate Change

Hampton Roads. (Photo by Copernicus Sentinel-2, ESA.)

Sea level rise and beyond: Is the US military prepared for climate change?

By Joan VanDervort | Analysis, Climate Change