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Environment & Ecology

Ecological researcher Amanda Gallinat takes notes about tree fruit.

Ecology

Migrating Birds Prefer to Eat Local New England Cuisine

December 13, 2019

Greta Thunberg talks at protest outside the United Nations surrounded by other climate change protesters holding signs.

Climate Change

How to Deal with Climate Skeptics at Thanksgiving Dinner

November 22, 2019

Selfie of Boston University student Allie Cole aboard the scientific vessel Robert C. Seamans in the Phoenix Islands Protected Area.

Field Report

What’s It Like to Sample Sea Life in the Remote Pacific?

October 17, 2019

Archaeologist John "Mac" Marston holds a vile of ancient seeds found at an archaeological dig.

Environmental Archaeology

What Can We Learn from an Ancient Pea?

October 7, 2019

Mosquito-borne illness

Here’s Everything We Know about the Lethal Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus

September 3, 2019

sperm and egg

BIRTH CONTROL

Why We Need a Contraception Revolution

August 1, 2019

Portrait of R.S. Deese standing on a beach.

Government & Law

To Fight Climate Change, Strengthen Global Democracy

July 22, 2019

Climate Change

As Climate Warms, Increased Energy Needs to Power Air-Conditioning Could Make a Bad Situation Worse

July 22, 2019

satellite image of Boston, MA

Earth & Environment

Orbiting NASA Instrument to Examine Boston’s Carbon Emissions, Plant Life

May 6, 2019

A white harp seal pup in the arctic.

Climate Change

Feeling Stressed about the Environment? You’re Not Alone

April 22, 2019

Many spring wildflowers, such as this bird’s-foot violet, are now leafing out and flowering one week earlier than they did 160 years ago. Photos by Richard B. Primack

Climate Change

Climate Change Throws Shade on Forest Wildflowers

March 20, 2019

Portrait of Jacob Jaskiel, kneeling, and Hayley Goss, standing, on a Boston Harbor beach with the Boston skyline in the background.

Marine Biology

Microplastic Pollution Found in Seagrasses

February 18, 2019

Planting of local vegetables; Landscape of Guilin; Li River.Yangshuo County; Guilin City; Province; China.

Climate Change

Humans Are Officially Greening the Earth. Is That a Good Thing?

February 11, 2019

wind turbine

Climate Change

Eight Ways Boston Could Become Carbon Free

January 29, 2019

Boston University professor of biology and a social insect researcher James F. A. Traniello poses sitting among insect specimens in his lab.

Accolades

James Traniello Elected to American Association for the Advancement of Science

December 18, 2018

Trees and snowline of a Northeastern Forest.

Climate Change

Warmer Winters Are Harming Northeast Forests

December 11, 2018

A diver reels in a line near a bleached colony of Boulder Star Coral at East Flower Garden Bank.

Marine Biology

Inside the Search for a Coral Killer

October 1, 2018

Lonchura castaneothorax and Lonchura grandis species of Finches from New Guinea standing on a branch

Biology

Birds of a Feather

February 12, 2018

cattle and trees illustration

Economics

Farmers and Forests

February 9, 2018

red tide

Data Science

Can Scientists Learn to Make “Nature Forecasts” Just as We Forecast the Weather?

January 31, 2018

Can Scientists Learn to Make “Nature Forecasts” Just as We Forecast the Weather?