A Plan to Slow the Creep of the Sahara—by Planting Gardens

People along the desert’s border are building a kind of circular plot called a tolou keur to keep…

What’s With All This Ooey, Gooey Sea Snot?

A phlegmy film is coating the coast around Istanbul—and warmer water could be to blame.

Walden Pond Is Now Teeming With Jellyfish—but Don’t Panic

The tiny jellies, which arrived sometime after Henry David Thoreau, are an example of how a…

We’re Starting to See How Covid PPE Litter Affects Wildlife

More than a year into the pandemic, scientists and environmentalists have the first data on where…

The Feds Want You to Destroy This Sneaky Mussel’s Hiding Spot

Moss ***** sold for aquariums can hide Zebra mussels, invasive mollusks that quickly overtake waterways. The…

Candy wrappers, floss, tampons: The secret ingredients of sewer-clogging fatbergs

Meet the world's funkiest mounds of grease and garbage.

The second death of long-submerged shipwrecks

Climate change is coming for underwater archaeological sites.