Every autumn, the same question resurfaces along with the color: how does a tree know to turn its leaves red, orange and gold, seemingly overnight? The answer is not overnight at all — it is a slow unmasking. Those colors were in the leaf the whole summer. Green was just loud enough to hide them. […]
Fall colors were never a new pigment appearing — they were there all summer, hidden under green. Here is the chemistry behind autumn's reds, oranges and golds.
A new global map shows precisely which coral reefs are likely to survive the climate crisis, and the unglamorous, community-level work already underway on some of them.
A new global map shows which coral reefs can survive climate change, and the Bahamian community already restoring one of them.
The Great Egret standing in a Florida Bay slough is, whether the photograph says so or not, standing inside the largest hydrologic restoration project ever attempted in the United States. Its presence there is not nature quietly bouncing back on its own — it is the closest thing wetland science has to a live scoreboard.
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Ten years of restoration work, told through the return of the species that had disappeared.