>"In an increasingly litigious conflict, the island’s residents are clashing over how to deal with the effects of climate change: Push back or _...Read More_

Amazing article about phytophthora and how plant diseases are hitchhiking on global trade flows and destroying forests and crops around the world. It also address the different ways how both western scientists and indigenous people are _...Read More_

>"Sea ice levels in the Arctic Ocean are rapidly declining, thanks to global warming. Now, to understand and forecast the growth and decay of the ice, researchers from Japan and collaborating countries have conducted a survey in the _...Read More_

[https://grist.org/science/points-of-no-return/](https://grist.org/science/points-of-no-return/) >"As the world warms, these Earth systems are changing. Could further warming make them spiral out of control?"

Scoop up a shovelful of healthy soil, and you’ll likely be holding more living organisms than there are people on Earth. But beneath fields covered in tight rows of corn, soy, wheat and other monoculture crops, a toxic soup of pesticides is _...Read More_

"A run-up in prices and shortage of man-made nutrients are forcing the agriculture industry to adapt, and the impact could be severe."

>"A recent study published in the Royal Society Open Science journal has found that mushrooms can communicate with each other. Scientists even believe they are able to use up to 50 “words.” “[We] found that the ‘fungal language’ exceeds _...Read More_

Facing sea-level rise, flooding, and landslides, the city’s residents are finding resilience—because they have little other choice.

"When it comes to measuring global warming , humidity, not just heat, matters in generating dangerous climate extremes, a new study finds. Researchers say temperature by itself isn’t the best way to measure climate change's weird weather _...Read More_

>"Kent Harrington explains how the Chinese government's aggressive land and water grabs are degrading the region's _...Read More_

>"The findings, related to gold mining in Peru, provide new evidence of how people are altering ecosystems in dangerous ways around the world."

"The creatures that can be found in the dark depths of the midwater and seafloor range from breathtakingly beautiful to terrifying."

“Before you think that the ecosystem collapse is restricted to central Asia, effects of the disappearing lake have been documented as far away as Scandinavia and Antarctica. Like A Butterfly in Peking, the effects of this significant _...Read More_