People along the desert’s border are building a kind of circular plot called a tolou keur to keep…
Author: Jessica Leigh Hester
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.