The tides they are a-changin’ — and it’s not just from climate change
Dredging rivers, filling in wetlands and other human acts of engineering have shifted coastal ebbs and flows worldwide. Add rising sea levels, and the threat of storm surges and floods will worsen in some places.
April 22, 2020 • ~10 min
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The soil solution
Policymakers, entrepreneurs and farmers are increasingly looking to soils in their fight to slow climate change
March 11, 2020 • ~13 min
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Fighting fire with fire ... and fauna
Climate change is aggravating the seasonal burns that Australia has always known. They won’t be snuffed out, but new ecological strategies may help.
March 5, 2020 • ~14 min
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How humans shift fish evolution | Things to Know
VIDEO: By targeting larger individuals, intense fishing may lead to a fishery dominated by the small
Feb. 27, 2020 • ~1 min
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What makes food ‘local’?
More people are choosing what to eat based on where it was grown, made or created. An anthropologist looks at the myriad ways we link food to place — and whether it really could make a difference.
Feb. 26, 2020 • ~12 min
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Out of Antarctica, churnings of climate change
The interplay of carbon dioxide, winds and Southern Ocean waters could be reaching an environmental tipping point
Feb. 25, 2020 • ~22 min
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The iron ocean
Through dust, not rust, the metal plays a complex, controversial role in Earth’s climate
Dec. 19, 2019 • ~25 min
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The human hand in fish evolution
Fishery practices that go for the big ones may be counterproductive when mostly the small survive
Dec. 9, 2019 • ~12 min
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An amphibious rescue mission
On the edge of extinction, rare frogs and toads need more than a little love to reproduce. High-tech help, from IVF to hormone therapy, may save them.
Oct. 8, 2019 • ~21 min
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The next omics? Tracking a lifetime of exposures to better understand disease
Of the millions of substances people encounter daily, health researchers have focused on only a few hundred. Those in the emerging field of exposomics want to change that.
Sept. 19, 2019 • ~17 min
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