At the ragged edge of Louisiana’s coast, where spartina grass trembles at every passing breeze, a quiet contest is underway. Saltwater pushes inland, storms ride higher, and the state’s iconic American alligator must navigate a landscape that is literally sinking beneath its feet. Scientists track the changes with sensors and satellites, yet the marsh tells ...
State mammal has a new address: the block walls, alleys, and rooftops of our desert cities. Long a phantom of canyon shadows, the ringtail is increasingly showing up on doorbell videos, in backyard fig trees, and yes – sometimes in attics. That shift poses a puzzle with real stakes: how does a rock-loving carnivore thrive ...
Picture this: you’re hiking through the rugged desert terrain of Texas when suddenly a small, spiny creature catches your eye. You pause to admire what looks like a tiny dinosaur sunbathing on a rock. Then, without warning, the creature fixes you with an intense stare and shoots a crimson stream directly from its eye socket, ...
The ground is still warm, the air sharp with smoke, and yet the landscape is already changing. Charred trunks sketch black lines across a sky that suddenly feels too wide, while thread the new openness like gray commas in a sentence that’s being rewritten. Across North America’s fire-prone regions, burns are not the end of ...
The skies above North America are witnessing a dramatic change. What once followed predictable patterns now shifts with the increasingly volatile weather patterns of our warming planet. , one of nature’s most remarkable phenomena, faces unprecedented challenges as extreme heat events reshape the very air currents and ecosystems these winged travelers depend on. Millions of ...
