Health & Ecosystems

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Coral Cores Pinpoint Onset of Industrial Deforestation

California’s Getting an Earlier Start to Wildfire Season

Arctic Rivers Trade Inorganic Nitrogen for Organic

Iron Emissions Are Shifting a North Pacific Plankton Bloom

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air pollution

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Forever Chemicals

EPA to Rescind Rules on Four Forever Chemicals

Trump Administration Moves to Weaken PFAS Rules

Unregulated Industrial Contaminants Detected in Some U.S. Drinking Water

Forever Chemicals Are Raining Down on the Great Lakes

“This study affirms what environmental justice advocates have been highlighting for decades: Communities of color often have to drink dirtier water.”
Lara Cushing, Unregulated Industrial Contaminants Detected in Some U.S. Drinking Water

HEALTH & ECOSYSTEMS ARCHIVE

NASA Planning for Unauthorized Shutdown of Carbon Monitoring Satellites

Despite warnings that their actions are illegal, Duffy and other senior NASA officials have continued to secretly direct NASA employees to draw up plans to end at least two major satellites missions specifically designed to monitor global carbon dioxide.

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier

Advances in Ecological Forecasting

AGU and ESA invite contributions to a cross-society special collection on ecological forecasting across ecosystems and scales.

by R. Quinn Thomas, Cayelan C. Carey, Eric R. Sokol, Melissa A. Kenney, Michael C. Dietze and Marguerite A. Xenopoulos

Warming Winters Sabotage Trees’ Carbon Uptake

In temperate forests, the biomass-building benefits of warmer growing seasons are offset by damaging variability in winter weather—a disparity that climate models may miss.

by Grace van Deelen

First Species-Level Assessment Reveals Extinction Risk in Mesoamerica

Forty-six percent of tree species in Mesoamerica are threatened with extinction. Researchers hope a new regional study will inform targeted conservation strategies.

by Roberto González

Artificial Light Lengthens the Urban Growing Season

New research shows that artificial light at night lengthens the plant growing season in cities, overshadowing the effect of high urban temperatures.

by Caroline Hasler

Policy Success: Fees and Bans on Plastic Bags Reduce Beach Trash

Regardless of the patchwork of regulations aimed at limiting plastic bag use in the United States, new research indicates that such legislation does, indeed, limit the number of plastic bags found on beaches.

by Rebecca Owen

Anchoring Is Damaging the Fragile Antarctic Seabed

Scientists call for better protection of Antarctica’s vulnerable seafloor ecosystem as ship traffic increases around the continent.

by Erin Martin-Jones

Biomass and Biodiversity Were Coupled in Earth’s Past

Measuring shells and skeletons encased in thousands of limestone samples has revealed that the sheer amount of living stuff in Earth’s oceans changed alongside the diversity of organisms.

by Grace van Deelen

Pollution from Wildfires Can Contaminate Our Water for up to 8 Years, Study Finds

An analysis of 500 watersheds found levels of organic carbon, phosphorus, and other pollutants up to 103 times higher after a wildfire.

by Sophie Hurwitz

Environmental Groups Sue to Block Everglades Detention Facility

The groups assert that the facility will undermine decades’ of work and billions of dollars spent restoring and protecting the Everglades’ delicate ecosystem.