Erica Gies
Rethink
Low-lying Vietnam Is Squeezed Between Its Neighbors and the Rising Seas.
Climate change, heavy-handed water management, and upstream dams are changing the Mekong Delta, pushing residents to adapt.
Hakai magazine
A Cull to Save the Kelp
An innovative project is rehabilitating California’s kelp forests after decades of degradation at the hands of environmental decay and sea urchin predation.
Ensia
Our Drinking Water Systems Are a Disaster. What Can We Do?
In the wake of the Flint crisis, communities turn to innovative technology and financing to prevent the next crisis.
The Atlantic
California’s Underground Water War
California has been the only western state without groundwater regulation – but now that looks set to change.
The Atlantic
The Persian Leopard Is a Symbol of Persecution and Survival in the Middle East
In the Kurdish mountains of Iraq, conservationists are facing landmines and cultural taboos to save the endangered cat.
The New York Times
Making the Consumer an Active Participant in the Grid
bioGraphic
A Drop in the Ocean?
As the world’s marine ecosystems face ever-increasing threats, is the the trend toward huge, remote reserves a promising new development or a worrisome distraction?
Scientific American
Ecological Detectives Hunt for San Francisco’s Vanished Waterways
Recovering “ghost creeks” from past landscapes can help protect the city’s future amid climate chaos.
Scientific American
What Lichens Can Teach Us
A new IMAX film highlights their beauty and resilience.
Nature
Can Wind and Solar Fuel Africa’s Future?
With prices for renewables dropping, many countries in Africa might leap past dirty forms of energy towards a cleaner future.
The New York Times
Bioplastics: The Challenge of Viability
Nature Outlook
Lazarus Batteries
Battery recycling can be hard, energy intensive and uneconomic. But soon, dead power cells could be more easily resurrected.
Nature Climate Change
Businesses Lead Where US Falters
The Paris Agreement requires commitments from countries to take action and reduce emissions, but the corporate world is also looking at its contribution to...
Scientific American
What a Healthy Jungle Sounds Like
Species may have evolved their wide array of sounds to fill unused parts of the frequency spectrum. This could also reveal the degree of...