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Mangrove trees at dawn.
trees

Florida's Mangroves Face Death by Rising Sea Level

The Everglades and coastal communities are in peril.
Oliver Milman May 3, 2018
Turtles led scientists to a remote landscape thick with seagrass.
turtles

Turtles Have Led Us to Their Secret Seagrass Meadows

Some ecological good news, courtesy of some hungry shelled swimmers.
Jessica Leigh Hester April 11, 2018
Antarctica was once covered in forests instead of ice.
forests

Why Antarctica's Prehistoric Forests Might Foreshadow Its Future

Hidden on the frozen continent are clues to its greener past.
Sarah Laskow April 3, 2018
Women working on the Tabasco production line, Avery Island, 1961.
food

How Climate Change Could Swallow Louisiana's Tabasco Island

With thousands of square miles of land already lost along the coast, Avery Island faces being marooned.
Oliver Milman April 2, 2018
Palms flourish in tropical zones, but as the world warms, they'll show up in new places.
science

Where Will Palm Trees Grow in a Warming World?

As temperatures rise, fronds will fan out in unexpected places.
Jessica Leigh Hester March 21, 2018
Walking through a sandstone arch at the Apostle Island ice caves.
caves

No One Has Been Able to Visit Wisconsin's Spectacular Ice Caves This Year

Another winter has passed without a safe route.
Sarah Laskow March 15, 2018
A Hubbard Brook ice storm experiment.
forests

The Experimental Forest Where Scientists First Recognized Acid Rain

A patch of New Hampshire woods has served as a living laboratory since 1955.
James Gaines March 13, 2018
So far north, the sun never really sets.
exploration

Revisiting an Explorer's Northwest Passage 'Disappointment' After Nearly 230 Years

The 18th-century fur trader Alexander Mackenzie thought he was a failure, but he was wrong. He was just too early.
Brian Castner March 13, 2018
A red abalone off the coast of California.
shells

The Cultural Costs of California’s Shrinking Abalone Supply

Climate change and overfishing have pushed the prized mollusk to perilously low numbers in the state.
Debra Utacia Krol March 2, 2018
The silicon skeleton of a glass sponge.
science

A 10-Foot Long, 11,000-Year-Old Sponge Skeleton Has a Hidden Use

The "sponge record" can tell scientists about the climate of the past.
Sarah Laskow March 1, 2018
Jesse Bethea imagines an enormous, eyeless catfish, with spines like a lion fish.
monsters

Your Climate Change Monsters, Revealed

The face of climate change, as chosen by Atlas Obscura readers.
Natasha Frost February 23, 2018
New research shows that minuscule ocean bacteria can adapt to different light to carry out oceanic photosynthesis.
found

These Marine Bacteria Can Change Their Colors in Different Types of Light

One researcher called them "planktonic chameleons."
Vittoria Traverso February 22, 2018
Constructing the nuclear reactor.
science

America's Secret Ice Base Won't Stay Frozen Forever

Climate change is turning a Cold War project into an environmental hazard.
Sarah Laskow February 22, 2018
Hodgson among his decoys.
animals

Why Drones Are Counting Thousands of Decoy Ducks

To test the gadget's data skills, researchers speckled a beach with fake fowl.
Jessica Leigh Hester February 20, 2018
Two large fossilized mammoth tracks.
science

The Stories Hidden in Fossilized Mammoth Footprints

What researchers uncovered when they analyzed 43,000-year-old tracks.
Christina Ayele Djossa February 14, 2018
Godzilla was inspired by fear of a world changed in the wake of nuclear disaster.
cryptozoology

How Climate Change Inspires Monsters

"The Year Without a Summer" produced some of the most iconic fictional beasts of all time.
Natasha Frost January 23, 2018
Do climate change monsters have a dozen tentacles and a thirst for blood?
monsters

Help Us Design a Climate Change Monster

What fictional beasts will our shifting environments bring?
Natasha Frost January 22, 2018
Cemetery Beach
Tingloy, Philippines

Cemetery Beach

Nearly 100 concrete graves lie hidden just beyond the pristine waters along the coast.