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.

Policymakers, entrepreneurs and farmers are increasingly looking to soils in their fight to slow climate change

Climate change is aggravating the seasonal burns that Australia has always known. They won’t be snuffed out, but new ecological strategies may help.

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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.

The interplay of carbon dioxide, winds and Southern Ocean waters could be reaching an environmental tipping point

Through dust, not rust, the metal plays a complex, controversial role in Earth’s climate

Fishery practices that go for the big ones may be counterproductive when mostly the small survive

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.

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.