Maria Made It Obvious: Puerto Rico Needs a Green Grid
This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Puerto Rico barely had a minute to recover from being grazed by Hurricane Irma when Maria...
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Scientists Are Using 135 Years Worth of Dead Birds to Study Pollution
This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In March 2016, a flock of pigeons took to London’s skies with petite vests strapped to their...
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Hurricane Sandy Hit Five Years Ago Today. Here’s What We Learned—And Forgot.
This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Superstorm Sandy struck at the end of October 2012, the fallout was widespread and...
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It’s Been Five Years Since Hurricane Sandy. How Did This Season’s Storms...
This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The fifth anniversary of Superstorm Sandy happens to fall just on the other side of a summer...
View ArticleHere’s How NYC Is Storm-Proofing Its Parks
This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. New York City’s parks are green oases amid glass, concrete, and steel. But though they feel...
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Turtles Have Led Us to Their Secret Seagrass Meadows
This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Far from shore, the ocean floor is more than an unbroken swath of sand and mud: It can...
View ArticleNarwhals Are Real, and They Could Be in Real Trouble
This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Narwhals are sometimes called the “unicorns of the sea.” Like their fictional equine...
View ArticleMicroplastics Are Invisible, Scary, and Everywhere
This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a recent sticky summer afternoon in Manhattan, a team of scientists took to the...
View ArticleWhere There’s Smoke, There’s a Scientist Tracking It
This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. America’s coasts sit 3,000 miles apart, and are separated by differences both geological...
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These Close-Up Glamour Shots of Bees Are Generating Lots of Buzz
This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Sam Droege really loves bees. He thinks they’re cute, for one thing. (Just look at that...
View ArticleThere Once Was a Cold War Between Meteorologists and “Weather Sharps”
This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. An incoming cold spell is sending shivers across the American Midwest. Over the next few...
View ArticleHow on Earth Are Birds Surviving During Chicago’s Incredible Cold Snap?
This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura. It appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Chicago is shuddering. With temperatures dropping down to -20 degrees Fahrenheit...
View ArticleWhen We All Move to Space, We’ll Have to Be Picky About Houseplants
This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. LaShelle Spencer knew that she was supposed to kill Alfred, but she couldn’t bring...
View ArticleA Remote Australian Archipelago Is Home to Roughly 600 People and 414 Million...
This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Charles Darwin was utterly charmed by the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. When the...
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This Is What Scientific Fieldwork Is Like During the Time of COVID-19
This piece was originally published in Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. If May 2020 was like any other spring, Daniel Bolnick, an ecologist at the University of...
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There’s Fascinating Science Behind the Reason These Amazing Great Lakes Rocks...
This piece was originally published in Atlas Obscura and appears here as part of our Climate Desk Partnership. Look at Erik Rintamaki’s rock collection under the white light of a 60-watt bulb or with...
View ArticleWhat the Heck Is Sea Snot, Anyway?
This story was originally published by Atlas Obscura and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For months, the waters around Istanbul, Turkey, have been coated with a gloopy...
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