With ocean warming and acidification proceeding at an ever-growing pace, we grow the algae in high CO2 environments — which is something like what a future ocean might be like. >>Read More

But real conservation seems more like a scary and unpredictable black market—someone jumps out of an alley and pulls open a coat with a spotty array of attractive goods pinned on the inside—do you buy them or not? >>Read More

Andy Revkin, who writes the dot Earth blog for the New York Times posted an article on Facebook which describes an apparent link between natural gas fracking” and low birth weights. >>Read More

"The need to produce a higher yield is continually growing, yet natural resources are becoming increasingly scarce," says Denison. "Improving crop genetics – and avoiding costly dead ends in the process – is paramount to the long term sustainability of agriculture. >>Read More

Recent data suggests we’re “approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere” and creeping up on the dreaded tipping point where the climate abruptly and irreversibly changes. If this happens, new ecosystems will form and pose daunting challenges to plant and animal life across the globe. Catastrophe could result. >>Read More

Intelligence, cooperation, altruism, abstraction, maybe even a “theory of mind” (though I could be stretching this last point); all demonstrated in non-humans in this heartwarming story of gorillas dismantling poachers traps. >>Read More

Here is her report on our conversations about adaptability, symbiosis, and how it relates to what she learned about the coming water crisis (or is it the “coming water opportunity?”) at this year’s Aspen Environmental Forum >>Read More