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.
Climate ChangeEnergyWater
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.
Climate ChangeOceans
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.
Environmental JusticePolicyPollutionWater
The Atlantic

California’s Underground Water War

California has been the only western state without groundwater regulation – but now that looks set to change.
PolicyWater
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.
BiodiversityConservation
The New York Times

Making the Consumer an Active Participant in the Grid

EnergyRenewable Energy
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?
BiodiversityConservationOceans
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.
AdaptationNature-Based SolutionsSlow WaterWater
Scientific American

What Lichens Can Teach Us

A new IMAX film highlights their beauty and resilience.
BiodiversityBiologyIndigenous
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.
EnergyRenewable Energy
The New York Times

Bioplastics: The Challenge of Viability

Pollution
Nature Outlook

Lazarus Batteries

Battery recycling can be hard, energy intensive and uneconomic. But soon, dead power cells could be more easily resurrected.
EnergyRenewable Energy
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...
Climate Change
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...
BiodiversityScience