Why 2026 could see the end of the Farm Bill era of American agriculture policyChristopher Neubert, Arizona State University and Kathleen Merrigan, Arizona State University
How facial recognition for bears can help ecologists manage wildlifeEmily Wanderer, University of Pittsburgh
The battle over a global energy transition is on between petro-states and electro-states – here’s what to watch for in 2026Jennifer Morgan, Tufts University
LA fires 1 year later: Chemicals from smoke lingered in homes long after the wildfires were out – studies tracked the harmYifang Zhu, University of California, Los Angeles
The US used to be really dirty – environmental cleanup laws have made a huge differenceJames Salzman, University of California, Santa Barbara; University of California, Los Angeles
LA fires showed how much neighborliness matters for wildfire safetyElizabeth A. Logan, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and William Deverell, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
West Coast levee failures show growing risks from America’s aging flood defensesFarshid Vahedifard, Tufts University
Greenland’s melting ice and landslide-prone fjords make the oil and minerals Trump is eyeing dangerous to extractPaul Bierman, University of Vermont
West Antarctica’s history of rapid melting foretells sudden shifts in continent’s ‘catastrophic’ geologyChristine Siddoway, Colorado College; Anna Ruth (Ruthie) Halberstadt, The University of Texas at Austin, and Keiji Horikawa, University of Toyama
Understanding climate change in America: Skepticism, dogmatism and personal experienceGary W. Yohe, Wesleyan University
Where the wild things thrive: Finding and protecting nature’s climate change safe havensToni Lyn Morelli, UMass Amherst; U.S. Geological Survey and Diana Stralberg, University of Alberta
Rising electricity prices and an aging grid challenge the nation as data centers demand more powerBarbara Kates-Garnick, Tufts University
Why 70-plus species of sharks and rays needed new international trade limit protectionsGareth J. Fraser, University of Florida
From record warming to rusting rivers, 2025 Arctic Report Card shows a region transforming faster than expectedMatthew L. Druckenmiller, University of Colorado Boulder; Rick Thoman, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Twila A. Moon, University of Colorado Boulder
2025’s extreme weather brought intense flash flooding, but no hurricane landfalls in the US – the jet stream is a big reason whyShuang-Ye Wu, University of Dayton
Rain on wildfire burn scars can trigger dangerous mudflows − a geologist explains howJen Pierce, Boise State University
What is an atmospheric river? A hydrologist explains the good and bad of these storms and how they’re changingQian Cao, University of California, San Diego
Iran’s president calls for moving its drought-stricken capital amid a worsening water crisis – here’s how Tehran got into water bankruptcyAli Mirchi, Oklahoma State University; Amir AghaKouchak, University of California, Irvine; Kaveh Madani, United Nations University, and Mojtaba Sadegh, Boise State University; United Nations University
Winter storms blanket the East, while the US West is wondering: Where’s the snow?Adrienne Marshall, Colorado School of Mines
No time to recover: Hurricane Melissa and the Caribbean’s compounding disaster trap as the storms keep comingFarah Nibbs, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Even with Trump’s support, coal power remains expensive – and dangerousHannah Wiseman, Penn State and Seth Blumsack, Penn State
What are small modular reactors, a new type of nuclear power plant sought to feed AI’s energy demand?Leonel Lagos, Florida International University
Renewable energy is cheaper and healthier – so why isn’t it replacing fossil fuels faster?Jay Gulledge, University of Notre Dame; University of Tennessee
Supply-chain delays, rising equipment prices threaten electricity gridMorgan Bazilian, Colorado School of Mines and Kyri Baker, University of Colorado Boulder
Data centers need electricity fast, but utilities need years to build power plants – who should pay?Theodore J. Kury, University of Florida
AI’s ballooning energy consumption puts spotlight on data center efficiencyDivya Mahajan, Georgia Institute of Technology
How your electric bill may be paying for big data centers’ energy useAri Peskoe, Harvard University and Eliza Martin, Harvard University
Data centers consume massive amounts of water – companies rarely tell the public exactly how muchPeyton McCauley, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Melissa Scanlan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
With wolves absent from most of eastern North America, can coyotes replace them?Alex Jensen, North Carolina State University
What’s at risk for Arctic wildlife as Trump expands oil drilling access in the fragile National Petroleum Reserve-AlaskaMariah Meek, Michigan State University
Wildlife recovery means more than just survival of a speciesBenjamin Larue, University of Montana; Jonathan Farr, University of Montana, and Mark Hebblewhite, University of Montana
How sea star wasting disease transformed the West Coast’s ecology and economyRebecca Vega Thurber, University of California, Santa Barbara
2 iconic coral species are now functionally extinct off Florida – we witnessed the devastationCarly D. Kenkel, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Jenna Dilworth, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and Maya Gomez, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we mapped where Antarctica’s ice melt would have the biggest impactShaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of Rhode Island
Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate changeJonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
How the US cut climate-changing emissions while its economy more than doubledValerie Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology
How the oil industry and growing political divides turned climate change into a partisan issueJoe Árvai, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
From FIFA to the LA Clippers, carbon offset scandals are exposing the gap between sports teams’ green promises and realityBrian P. McCullough, University of Michigan and Edward Carrington, University of Michigan
Trump’s second term is reshaping US science with unprecedented cuts and destabilizing policy changesKenneth M. Evans, Rice University
As US hunger rises, Trump administration’s ‘efficiency’ goals cause massive food wasteTevis Garrett Graddy-Lovelace, American University School of International Service
Black families pay more to keep their houses warm than average American familiesGeorge C. Homsy, Binghamton University, State University of New York and Ki Eun Kang, California State University, San Bernardino
Why higher tariffs on Canadian lumber may not be enough to stimulate long-term investments in US forestryAndrew Muhammad, University of Tennessee and Adam Taylor, University of Tennessee
Refinery fires, other chemical disasters may no longer get safety investigationsPhilip Steenstra, University of Michigan; Rachel O’Brien, University of Michigan, and Stuart Batterman, University of Michigan
What does it mean to be a new national park? Ocmulgee Mounds in Georgia may soon find outSeth T. Kannarr, University of Tennessee
Yosemite embodies the long war over US national park privatizationMichael Childers, Colorado State University
Hidden treasures of America’s national parks are closer than you might thinkJeffrey C. Hallo, Clemson University
National parks are key conservation areas for wildlife and natural resourcesSarah Diaz, Coastal Carolina University and Linda Lane, Coastal Carolina University
Why protecting wildland is crucial to American freedom and identityLeisl Carr Childers, Colorado State University and Michael Childers, Colorado State University
A walk across Alaska’s Arctic sea ice brings to life the losses that appear in climate dataAlexandra Jahn, University of Colorado Boulder
US and Russia squabble over Arctic security as melting ice opens up shipping routesStefan Wolff, University of Birmingham
As mountain glaciers melt, risk of catastrophic flash floods rises for millionsSuzanne OConnell, Wesleyan University and Alton C. Byers, University of Colorado Boulder
At Antarctica’s midwinter, a look back at the frozen continent’s long history of dark behaviorDaniella McCahey, Texas Tech University
PFAS in pregnant women’s drinking water puts their babies at higher risk, study findsDerek Lemoine, University of Arizona; Ashley Langer, University of Arizona, and Bo Guo, University of Arizona
When the world’s largest battery power plant caught fire, toxic metals rained down – wetlands captured the falloutIvano W. Aiello, San José State University
Industrial facilities owned by profitable companies release more of their toxic waste into the environmentMahelet G Fikru, Missouri University of Science and Technology and Jennifer Brodmann, California State University, Dominguez Hills
Air quality analysis reveals minimal changes after xAI data center opens in pollution-burdened Memphis neighborhoodChunrong Jia, University of Memphis; Abu Mohammed Naser Titu, University of Memphis, and Namuun Batbaatar, University of Memphis
Solving the world’s microplastics problem: 4 solutions cities and states are trying after global treaty talks collapsedSarah J. Morath, Wake Forest University
Farmers – long Trump backers – bear the costs of new tariffs, restricted immigration and slashed renewable energy subsidiesKee Hyun Park, Nanyang Technological University; Institute for Humane Studies and Shannon P. Carcelli, University of Maryland
What is Fusarium graminearum, the fungus a Chinese scientist pleaded guilty to smuggling into the US?Tom W. Allen, Mississippi State University
2 ways you can conserve the water used to make your foodHuma Tariq Malik, Colorado State University and Thomas Borch, Colorado State University
Agricultural drones are taking off globally, saving farmers time and moneyBen Belton, Michigan State University and Leo Baldiga, Michigan State University
How Europe’s deforestation law could change the global coffee tradePaul Mwebaze, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
How the US can mine its own critical minerals − without digging new holesYuanzhi Tang, Georgia Institute of Technology and Scott McWhorter, Georgia Institute of Technology
Critical minerals don’t belong in landfills – microwave tech offers a cleaner way to reclaim them from e-wasteTerence Musho, West Virginia University
US, Ukraine sign ‘economic partnership’ centered on Ukraine’s wealth of critical minerals – but extracting them isn’t so simpleScott L. Montgomery, University of Washington
Deep-sea mining threatens sea life in a way no one is thinking about, and Trump’s order could clear the way for operations soonAlexus Cazares-Nuesser, University of Hawaii
Greenland’s melting ice and landslide-prone fjords make the oil and minerals Trump is eyeing dangerous to extractPaul Bierman, University of Vermont
Florida’s 1,100 natural springs are under threat – a geographer explains how to restore themChristopher F. Meindl, University of South Florida
How a devastating grape pest is reshaping vineyards across Colorado’s Western SlopeCharlotte Oliver, Colorado State University
Many Colorado homeowners are underinsured − here’s what to do before the next fireTony Cookson, University of Colorado Boulder and Emily Gallagher, University of Colorado Boulder
