Environment

Even if we can change a memory, should we? It’s a profound question. It’s about the core of humanity. At times, science can reduce us to machines. Under the hood, we have the same parts, more or less. The neurochemicals that fuel the brain, including the creation and recall of memories, work pretty much the […]

Nuclear winter is just the beginning.

Your brain is not the root of cognition.

One question for Matthew Birkhold, author of “Chasing Icebergs: How Frozen Freshwater Can Save the Planet.”

A relationship story.

A reef off the coast of Honduras should be a disaster. Instead it’s thriving.

What happens in the deep sea doesn’t stay in the deep sea.

What very old trees can teach us about life, death, and time.

We’ve starved marshes of their essential sediment—now can we repair them in time?

Saving reefs is possible—but there are challenges.

For sea life, the ocean is becoming an intolerable racket.

Our appetite is destroying a natural bulwark against climate change.

The collapse of our pollinators may no longer be headlines, but we’re still killing their buzz.

The lush biodiversity of the Amazon may be due in part to the dynamics of branching rivers, which serve as invisible fences that continuously barricade and merge bird populations.

Mo’orea, a Pacific Island, spotlights the rift in conservation between foreign scientists and Indigenous people.