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One of 65 standing stones at the center of a necropolis complex.
deserts

Stone Monuments in Western Sahara Record How People Adapted to Shifting Climate

The encroaching desert meant lots of changes.
Noor Al-Samarrai February 4, 2019
See how the water greens when more phytoplankton arrive.
oceans

Climate Change Is Altering the Color of the Oceans

New research suggests that we will see deeper shades of blue and green by 2100.
Matthew Taub February 4, 2019
A kite from above, taken from a balloon with a camera attached.
volcanoes

The Middle East Is Dotted With Thousands of Puzzling Kite-Shaped Structures

Some of them are comparable in size to the famous Nazca Lines in Peru.
Robin George Andrews January 22, 2019
The village of Ignaluk.
Diomede, Alaska

Little Diomede Island

Alaska Natives have lived on this tiny isolated island in the Bering Strait for over 5,000 years.
An iceberg floating off the Rydberg Peninsula, observed during Operation IceBridge's 2017 Antarctic campaign.
science

Antarctica Is Losing 250 Billion Tons of Ice Per Year

For nearly 40 years, this loss has accelerated at a devastating clip.
Matthew Taub January 14, 2019
The night sky at Utah's Arches National Park.
astronomy

As Light Pollution Spreads, U.S. National Parks Become Stargazing Sanctuaries

They're using the growing popularity of astrotourism to protect the night sky.
Kim O'Connell December 31, 2018
Reindeer and Penguins, Fortuna Bay, South Georgia Island.
islands

The Saga of the Reindeer of South Georgia Island

Sometimes it’s not pretty when we have to undo our ecological mistakes.
Tryggvi Adalbjornsson December 24, 2018
A green darner dragonfly on the move.
science

Tiny Dragonflies Travel Hundreds of Miles, to Mate and Then Die

One generation commutes one way, the next comes back.
Jessica Leigh Hester December 19, 2018
Tell us these aren't the cutest sea monsters you've ever seen.
nature

The Gribbles Are Here to Help Us Go Green

Tiny marine wood-eaters might help us dig into our biofuel future.
Matthew Taub December 3, 2018
Center pivot irrigation at work northeast of Adams, Nebraska.
science

Americans Have Planted So Much Corn That It's Changing the Weather

The Corn Belt is making it rain.
Eric J. Wallace December 3, 2018
Only at very high altitudes, such as in the Monte Rosa area (southern Valais), did some of the large amounts of winter snow survive the summer.
climate change

European Glaciers Have Been Coming and Going for Thousands of Years, But Now They’re Just Going

2018 was a terrible year for Swiss glaciers.
Anna Kusmer November 6, 2018
climate change

Exploring the Tragic Beauty of Greenland's Melting Ice Sheets

From above, the textured landscape can be almost abstract.
Sarah Laskow November 5, 2018
The markers in the whalers' graveyard, in the background, were replaced in the 1980s.
cemeteries

The Abandoned Graveyards on a Thawing Arctic Island

Climate change is causing trouble on Herschel Island.
Jessica Leigh Hester October 26, 2018
The ruins of Tyre are perilously close to the water.
floods

Here Are the Mediterranean Sites That Will Be Swallowed By the Sea

Coastal erosion and flooding are bad news for these ancient places.
Jessica Leigh Hester October 16, 2018
The winning canopy design.
architecture

This Award-Winning Australian Land Art Is Designed to Power 900 Homes

But will it ever be built?
Evan Nicole Brown October 12, 2018
Polar bears dine on a bowhead whale carcass on Wrangel Island, Russia.
animals

Dead Whales Once Saved Polar Bears From Climate Change, But Not This Time

Less sea ice and fewer whales mean a grim outlook.
Matthew Taub October 10, 2018
Pavel Tveretinov (left) and Vitaliy Yeroshenko of California were arrested in 2017 after law enforcement officials found thousands of beehives, worth nearly one million dollars, some stolen from orchards hundreds of miles apart.
insects

California’s Almond Harvest Has Created a Golden Opportunity for Bee Thieves

Hives have never been more valuable.
Byard Duncan October 10, 2018
A meadow of wildflowers above Paradise, ca. 2005.
science

In Washington State, Volunteer Scientists Study Flowers to Battle Climate Dread

The data they're collecting is helping researchers evaluate how ecosystems change.
Jane C. Hu October 8, 2018