Smithsonian Magazine • 6th August 2024

This Innovative Device Allows South American Paleontologists to Share Fossils With the World

PaleoScan offers scientists at far-flung institutions a less expensive way to digitize their collections and preserve at-risk specimens of fish, turtles, pterosaurs and more.

Hakai Magazine • 5th June 2024

Sailing in Alaska? Watch Out for Tsunamis

Tour boat operators and cruise ship captains face a growing hazard: tsunamis generated by collapsing cliffs. If disaster strikes, what should they do?

Smithsonian Magazine • 24th April 2024

How the Great Alaska Earthquake Shook Up Science

Sixty years ago, the largest earthquake in U.S. history shocked geologists. It’s still driving scientific discoveries today

Science • 18th April 2024

Daring ‘James Bond’ mission to drill Antarctic ice cores could reveal future of sea level rise

To understand the glaciers holding back meters of sea level rise, climate scientists swoop in to extract ice from Antarctica’s remote west coast

National Geographic • 13th February 2024

Which animal is a better spy—a pigeon or a cat? We actually know the answer.

The CIA spent $20 million on an eavesdropping cat, but it’s the humble pigeon that’s pulled off the greatest intelligence heists.

Undark • 27th November 2023

In Alaska, Preparing for Tsunamis Is No Small Feat

A complex, volatile coast leaves Alaska vulnerable to tsunamis. Warning locals of the risks still comes with challenges.

National Geographic • 15th November 2023

In 1969, the U.S. turned off Niagara Falls. Here’s what happened next.

More than a century of engineering has radically re-shaped the natural wonder—but when the U.S. had the chance to bend the American Falls to its will, it folded. Here’s why.

MIT Technology Review • 21st August 2023

The ice cores that will let us look 1.5 million years into the past

Scientists are drilling deep into the Antarctic ice to better understand the role atmospheric carbon dioxide plays in Earth’s climate cycles.

Science • 16th August 2023

‘Folks in Alaska should take this seriously.’ Anchorage not safe from tsunamis, study finds

Low tide helped city dodge catastrophic 1964 wave, but future ones could destroy critical port, highways.

National Geographic • 3rd August 2023

Why Iceland wants its medieval skulls back

Crania from a Nordic 'golden age' sit in a Harvard museum basement, and now researchers on both sides of the Atlantic want to reunite them with their bodies.

Scientific American • 10th May 2023

More Frequent Dust Storms Could Be in Our Future

A combination of climate change and unsustainable agricultural practices could lead to Dust Bowl–like conditions.

Science • 2nd May 2023

Dredged lake sediment could nourish new crops

To close the leaky agricultural nutrient cycle, scientists propose using runoff-rich sediment to return nutrients to the soil.

Sierra • 23rd April 2023

Can Geoengineers Learn to Work With Indigenous Communities?

Some projects aimed at climate solutions have a history of sidelining local voices.

Science • 7th April 2023

Baseball’s sluggers hit more home runs thanks to global warming

In warmer air batted balls are flying farther, study finds, although the effect is small.

Hakai • 15th March 2023

The Toxic Threat in Thawing Permafrost

Scientists are tracking neurotoxic methylmercury production in North America’s largest peatland.

NASA • 7th March 2023

NASA To Measure Forest Health from Above

Using hyperspectral and shortwave IR cameras, uncrewed aircraft and satellites could analyze forest canopy light to investigate the health of forests.

Smithsonian • 22nd February 2023

The First Fossil Finders in North America Were Enslaved and Indigenous People

Decades before paleontology’s formal establishment, Black and Native Americans discovered—and correctly identified—millennia-old fossils.

MIT Technology Review • 21st February 2023

These underwater cables can improve tsunami detection

Telecom companies have long resisted letting scientific sensors piggyback on their subsea cables—until now.

Pulitzer Center • 16th February 2023

Telling a New Kind of Polar Science Story

Any paleoclimatologist will tell you—the real work happens in the lab. Telling polar science stories set in labs—ones that focus on the work of teams instead of heroic individuals and on science instead of dramatic exploration—is necessary if we want to encourage more inclusive science.

Scientific American • 9th February 2023

Inside the Race to Find Earth's Oldest Ice

A global race is on to drill for the oldest known layers of Antarctic ice so researchers can peer back in time to a warmer climate to better understand the planet’s hotter future.

Undark • 6th February 2023

As Antarctic Fieldwork Ends, a Sexual Harassment Reckoning Looms

A 2022 report described harassment as a “fact of life” on the continent. Young researchers are particularly alarmed.

Hakai • 18th January 2023

Salt Marsh Microbes Threaten to Reshape the Atmosphere

Turf wars between microbes dictate how much carbon salt marshes store and how much methane they pump into the air.

Sierra • 4th December 2022

Orchids Are Doing Something Totally Weird With Fungi

We’re learning how varied interspecies partnerships can be.

MIT Technology Review • 19th August 2022

A Chicago city sensor project goes global

The Array of Things has now become an open-source resource for atmospheric monitoring, earthquake sensing, and a range of other applications.