EAST LANSING, Mich. — In grade school, you may have learned about the water cycle. Water falls from the sky as varied forms of precipitation, exists on...
Piping plovers have been struggling for decades. All three U.S. populations are federally protected–two are threatened and the third is endangered. Despite habitat restoration efforts, piping...
The benefit of Michigan’s 20 million acres of forests can be seen through a variety of lenses. Michigan forests play a key role in offsetting greenhouse...
The anchor chain clinked and clanked through the hawsehole on the Dutch tall ship Oosterschelde until the large anchor set into white coral sands turned periwinkle...
The planet is heating up at an alarming rate, and the consequences are becoming increasingly apparent. Once-popular tourist destinations are now grappling with extreme heat conditions that are...
UN World Oceans Day, celebrated on Friday at UN Headquarters in New York, focused on “opening minds, igniting senses, and inspiring possibilities” to protect marine life...
By Emily Williams, Miami University, Project Dragonfly The southern sea otter, or California sea otter, is one of three endangered subspecies of sea otter found in...
By Cheryl Lyn Dybas Threading their way through tangled undergrowth, biochemist Ilya Raskin of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and botanist Slavik Dushenkov of...
The second expedition of Under The Pole’s DEEPLIFE programme, in the Canary Islands, has been a great success. With support from the Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative,...
By Rob Moir Have you ever considered how our perspective of climate change might shift if we focused not just on the sky above us but...