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With about a third of the country below the current sea level, the Netherlands is embracing floating houses and other buildings that can adapt to rising waters.

The Future is Floating for the Netherlands and Other Low-Lying Countries

Houses and other buildings that rise and fall with water levels are becoming more common in Dutch cities.

Shira Rubin January 3, 2022

African baobabs—including the Big Tree—can live more than a thousand years.

How Old Is Zimbabwe’s Famed ‘Big Tree’?

The majestic African baobab has seen several growth spurts over its 1,200 or so years.

Jonathan Moens November 26, 2021

'Time and Tide Bell' at Bosta Beach

Outer Hebrides, Scotland

'Time and Tide Bell' at Bosta Beach

One of a series of sculptures making a statement about sea-level rise in the United Kingdom.

Sea otters, once hunted by humans for their fur and now adored for their cuteness, may be key to saving entire ecosystems.

Otter-ly Adorable Climate Change Warriors May Save California's Coastal Ecosystems

Too-cute sea otters are ravenous predators that feast on purple urchins and other destructive species.

Matt Simon November 22, 2021

Trees suffering in the torture orchard.

The ‘Torture Orchard’ Is a Testing Ground for the Coming Climate Crisis

Which trees will live and which ones will die?

Diana Hubbell November 18, 2021

The Last Venezuelan Glacier team examines the recently exposed areas just below the Humboldt's glacier edge in 2019, more than 15,000 feet of elevation.

Studying New Life in the Shadow of Venezuela's Last Glacier

When ice goes, lichens and mosses move in and an entirely new ecosystem starts to take shape.

Jonathan Moens November 18, 2021

The FLOAT House

New Orleans, Louisiana

FLOAT House

An architectural experiment in the Lower Ninth Ward, this row house is capable of floating as high as the Katrina floodwaters.

Bayou Bienvenue

New Orleans, Louisiana

Cypress "Ghost Swamp"

A serene but haunting memorial to protective wetland lost, the absence of which directly damaged the Lower 9th Ward following Hurricane Katrina.

The Morettino's coffee plants in Palermo, Italy.

Climate Change and the Dream of Growing Coffee in Sicily

As temperatures rise, one family hopes to establish the world’s northernmost coffee plantation.

Lorenzo Tondo October 25, 2021

A view of a coffee forest in Ethiopia.

The Last Wild Coffee Forests

Plus four ways to eat and drink coffee that involve the whole plant.

Alex Mayyasi September 21, 2021

A 1,500-year-old pile of argali sheep skulls and horn curls, perhaps intentionally stacked by ancient hunters, melts from a glacier margin in western Mongolia.

Mongolia's Melting Ice Reveals Fragile Prehistoric Artifacts

Researchers scramble to find and study everyday items preserved for millennia and now at risk.

William Taylor September 20, 2021

New Zealand's tuatara are the last members of <em>Rhynchocephalia</em>, an order of lizard-like reptiles

New Zealand's Slow-Moving 'Living Fossils' Have the Fastest Sperm Among Reptiles

Discovering the trait may help scientists protect the tuatara, which has been around since the dinosaurs.

Tess McClure September 13, 2021

A spiral formation of jack fish in Heron Island's harbor was the winner of <em>BMC Ecology and Evolution</em>'s inaugural photo competition.

What Do You See in This Spiral of Color and Light?

A researcher says her award-winning image of a swirling school of fish is also a metaphor for the oceans' health.

Gemma Tarlach September 9, 2021

Researchers took samples from the new island during a July 2020 expedition.

The Northernmost Island in the World Was Just Discovered by Accident

It remains to be seen whether it will stick around.

Sarah Durn September 8, 2021

A satellite image from May 2021 shows Lake Menindee, the largest of a nine-lake system, refilling after years of drought. By late August, the lake had reached nearly 90 percent capacity.

An Australian Lake Returns to Life Amid Controversy and Hope

The revival of Lake Menindee is the latest chapter in a battle over water management, environmental protection, and indigenous rights.

Gemma Tarlach May 5, 2022

Part of a portable nuclear power plant arrives at Camp Century in 1960.

The U.S. Army Tried Portable Nuclear Power at Remote Bases 60 Years Ago

It didn't go well.

Paul Bierman August 30, 2021

In a satellite image of the Greenland Ice Sheet's southwestern corner, captured on August 21, 2021, pale blue meltwater streams across ice or collects in slushy depressions. The deeper blue areas are meltwater lakes with depths up to about 30 feet.

Ghostly Satellite Image Captures the Arctic ‘Losing Its Soul’

In the aftermath of an extreme melt event, what do scientists see in the Greenland Ice Sheet’s swirls of white, blue, and ominous gray?

Gemma Tarlach August 27, 2021

Lord Randal Plunkett, seen in the company of his Jack Russell terriers, began rewilding the estate he inherited seven years ago.

Meet the Death Metal Baron Giving His Irish Estate Back to Nature

The carnivore-turned-vegan lord has rewilded hundreds of acres, boosting biodiversity—and drawing criticism.

Rory Carroll August 23, 2021