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A forested bog in Quebec, without a road in sight.
forests

Bogs Lose Their Carbon-Chomping Powers When Roads Cut Through Them

In Canada, roads disrupt wetland water flow and multiply methane emissions, a new study finds.
Sabrina Imbler December 20, 2019
On December 10, 2019, the waterfall was a trickle, not a cascade.
nature

World-Famous Waterfalls May Slow to a Trickle, But Tourism Doesn't Have To

When climate change comes for attractions like Victoria Falls, visitors can find new ways to appreciate them.
Jessica Leigh Hester December 13, 2019
The formations in Soreq Cave, also known as Avshalom Cave, capture ancient climate.
caves

Israelā€™s Stalagmites Have Climate Stories to Tell

Formed by dripping water over thousands of years, the rocky formations point to ancient monsoons.
Jessica Leigh Hester November 29, 2019
The flex gates to protect subway stations are tested with lots of water.
floods

How Do You Keep a Subway From Flooding in the Age of Rising Seas?

You seal it up, but you have to test it first.
Isaac Schultz November 21, 2019
Mongolia's perennial ice patches are receding and disappearing.
archaeology

Mongoliaā€™s Disappearing Ice Patches Threaten Both the Past and the Present

Reindeer herders and archaeologists must adapt to the new normal.
Isaac Schultz November 20, 2019
The Rubjerg Knude lighthouse, on the move.
lighthouses

More and More Lighthouses Are Moving Away From the Shore

A Danish structure is the latest to evade erosion by migrating inland.
Jessica Leigh Hester November 19, 2019
Once upon a time there was a cemetery here, in Tangier, Virginia.
cemeteries

From Indonesia to Ingonish, Some Bones Won't Stay BuriedĀ 

As seas and storms erode coastlines, cemeteries are giving up their dead.Ā 
Jennifer S. Holland October 28, 2019
Water stains and aquatic plants attest that the dolmen was recently submerged.
ruins

Drought Has Revealed Spain's Long-Submerged 'Stonehenge'

Up close with the 7,000-year-old Dolmen of Guadalperal.
Alyssa McMurtry September 6, 2019
Casa Pueblo.
Adjuntas, Puerto Rico

Casa Pueblo

This community-driven organization uses education and eco-friendly technology to protect the environment.
Zrinjevac Meteorological Column
Zagreb, Croatia

Zrinjevac Meteorological Column

This 135-year-old weather station studied the effects of the climate on human health.
The 73-mile-long Inuvik-Aklavik Ice Road forms each year when the Mackenzie River freezes over.
roads

Canada's Ice Roads Are Melting Too Soon

Climate change is fraying these seasonal lifelines, causing hardships for the remote towns that rely on them.
Karen Gardiner August 23, 2019
Glaciers regularly fluctuate with seasons, and the ice tunnel gets shorter as the summer stretches into fall.
grottoes

Swaddling Glaciers in Blankets Isnā€™t the Oddest Idea for Extending Their Lives

As glaciers and ice sheets keep dwindling, scientists are proposing everything they can think of.
Jessica Leigh Hester August 23, 2019
The entrance.
Nong Bua, Thailand

Wat Nong Bua Yai

An underwater temple submerged for 20 years has resurfaced with an extreme drought.
Lake Ilopango, under appropriately cloudy skies.
volcanoes

When a Volcano in El Salvador Cooled Down the Entire World

It may have even helped bring on the bubonic plague.
Matthew Taub August 19, 2019
A captive beluga sturgeon (<em>Huso huso</em>), the largest freshwater fish species in the world.
endangered animals

The Last Refuge of Eurasiaā€™s Giant River Dwellers

From poaching and dams and climate, sturgeon in Georgia are facing extinction.
Isaac Schultz August 8, 2019
Newly planted trees dot an Ethiopian field.
world record

Ethiopia Just Set the World Record for Most Trees Planted in a Day

The country came togetherā€”and installed 350 million trees in just 12 hoursā€”to combat climate change.
Evan Nicole Brown July 30, 2019
The dendrometer tracks the way the trunk and branches swell or contract.
forests

The Tree That Is Live-Tweeting Climate Change

With a little help from scientists, an oak in the Harvard Forest is sharing updates about its life.
Jessica Leigh Hester July 25, 2019
Where did all the big boys go?
squid

The Strange Case of Mexico's Shrinking Jumbo Squid

Too many El NiƱos have diminished the "diablo rojo."
Sabrina Imbler July 24, 2019