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Ed Hawkins
These Tiny Maps Tell the Big Climate Story
These Tiny Maps Tell the Big Climate Story
Climate scientist Ed Hawkins finds another creative way to visualize global temperature changes.
Species Watch
The Biggest Threats to Biodiversity? Guns. Nets. Bulldozers.
As the IUCN meets this week in Hawaii, a new report highlights the biggest threats to the planet's most endangered species.
Art for Earth’s Sake
History Has Forgotten One of America’s Most Prolific Landscape Photographers
Here’s why George Alexander Grant is a name worth knowing.
Art for Earth's Sake
Think You Know Our Parks? Take a Look at Them from These Angles
See these beloved national landscapes through a new lens.
Species Watch
When Invasive Species Strike the Third World, People Can Starve
Exotic troublemakers have long been regarded as a “first-world problem,” but a recent study says more and more invasive species might soon creep into developing nations.
Culture & Politics
Why Aren’t We More Freaked Out About Louisiana?
Climate change is conditioning us to accept natural disasters as “the new normal.”
From Our Partners
Pollution from Western Wildfires Is Making People Sick
And climate change is projected to bring more blazes—and harmful multiday "smoke waves"—in years to come.