Eastern Africa’s Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of volcanic activity caused by shifting tectonic plates.
In Eastern Africa, the Cradle of Humankind Is Tearing Apart
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Upwelling Failure
For the first time since records began, the cold, nutrient-rich waters of the Gulf of Panama failed to emerge.
Older and Wiser: How Elder Animals Help Species to Survive
When drought grips the African savanna, an aging elephant matriarch leads her herd to water she remembers from decades past.
To Restore an Island Paradise, Add Fungi
For the last two decades, conservationists on the remote Pacific atoll of Palmyra have been working to uproot invasive palm trees and restore native wildlife.
Rusting Rivers: Alarm Grows Over Uptick in Acidic Arctic Waters
When ecologist Patrick Sullivan flew into the Salmon River in Alaska to conduct a vegetation study in the summer of 2019, he was excited about paddling down the pristine Arctic river. Before he and his colleague got there, however, the pilot warned that they might not see what John McPhee had described, in his best-selling book Coming Into the Country, as the “purest water I have ever seen.”
Warmer Winters and Snow Drought May Threaten Western U.S. Water by Speeding Flows, Study Finds
As future shifts in climate lead to more rain and less snow in the western United States, new research finds that water will move faster through a landscape, likely leading to negative impacts on summer water levels and water quality.
