Climate Change

All you need is a dream, investors with deep pockets, and concrete. A lot of concrete.

A new project emphasizes practical designs that may stave off desertification.

In southwestern Turkey, the winding Büyük Menderes River shaped human history. Now, it's humans who will carve its future course.

A different process than evaporation, sublimation turns snow and ice directly into a gas.

An endangered species is thriving at a once-blighted lot, but climate change and other challenges threaten its future.

Just a few years ago, Samburu women were using Kirisia Forest for firewood and charcoal. Now they're protecting it, and managing it sustainably.

Val di Fiemme, source of famed "resonance wood" for instruments, faces wind storms, climate change, and beetle infestation.

Once thought to be a burden to neighboring trees, these 'ghosts of the forest' may actually benefit them.

The Alaska delta, one of the world's largest, is a ‘mosaic’ environment best visualized with a psychedelic palette.

Extreme environments offer them an unexpected paradise, and now researchers want to get a head count.

Indigenous ties to the bottom of the world go back more than a millennium, and could point the way forward.

The animals face threats from climate change, fishing, and a tourism boom, but their biggest advocate remains hopeful.

A study digs up the origin of the single species that gives us turnips, bok choy, broccoli rabe, and more.

And why is it fouling the coast around Istanbul?

The explanation behind a "drastic," bone-chilling, mysterious weather event in the Upper Midwest.

In the Driftless, a rare combination of geological quirks has preserved ancient ecosystems. But climate change is coming.

Bolivia's Lake Uru Uru faces an uncertain future: a growing city, toxic runoff, and drought worsened by climate change.