For nearly half a century, lightning-sparked blazes in Yosemite’s Illilouette Creek Basin have rippled across the landscape — closely monitored, but largely unchecked.
How Wildfire Restored a Yosemite Watershed
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Stanford Researchers Use Artificial Intelligence to Unlock Extreme Weather Mysteries
From lake-draining drought in California to bridge-breaking floods in China, extreme weather is wreaking havoc.
A Scientist Reveals the Bioluminescent Magic of the Deep-Sea World
Until recently, the depths of the world’s oceans remained almost entirely unexplored. But advances in submersible technology are increasingly giving scientists a window into this little-known universe.
Common Environmental Pollutants Damage Mucus Structure, Function
Major disruptions to our health and quality of life are front of mind in an era when wildfires, floods, and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic impact Earth’s population daily.
The Ocean Remembers
In estimations of ocean heat content — important when assessing and predicting the effects of climate change — calculations have often presented the rate of warming as a gradual rise from the mid-20th century to today.
Insidious Coral Killer Invading Palmyra Atoll Reef
The reefs at Palmyra Atoll, a small outlying atoll in the equatorial Pacific Ocean, have been undergoing a shift from stony corals to systems dominated by corallimorphs, marine invertebrates that share traits with both anemones and hard corals.
