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Environment

A collection of 11 posts

A cluster of male athletes racing on a track.

Don’t be surprised if extreme heat makes breaking Olympic records impossible

Rising heat takes a toll on athletes’ physiology and makes sports more dangerous.

Nine cicadas resting on a leafy bush.

In cicada emergence, a piggybacking parasite steals the show

The surprising link between drug trafficking and bird conservation

The surprising link between drug trafficking and bird conservation

Forget Cocaine Bear, it’s cocaine-impacted birds we need to worry about.

Cane toad illustr

Let's call 'em froggy pharmaceuticals

The biggest threat to biodiversity you’ve never heard of

The biggest threat to biodiversity you’ve never heard of

As a fungus pushes dozens of amphibians into extinction, researchers search for whatever hope they can grab.

An activist with a picket and sign about the plastic pollution crisis

Plastics production alone will doom climate goals

Manufacturing plastics is a highly emissive process. The world needs to shrink production rapidly to stay within the 1.5 °C global temperature rise.

Is climate resilience possible in a world of borders?

Is climate resilience possible in a world of borders?

We govern deforestation, agriculture, and biodiversity within our own borders. But unchecked sovereignty may be a mistake.

A few more thoughts on climate and borders

A few more thoughts on climate and borders

The Sequencer team chimes in

A high-perch view of the Belo Monte dam that stretches across the Xingu River in Brazil.

Hydropower isn’t as green as you think

Brazil, the main stronghold nation of the Amazon rainforest, is embarking on a dam-building spree that ignores concerns the world has seen many times over.

How Did We Draw The Planet Before We Actually Saw It?

How Did We Draw The Planet Before We Actually Saw It?

The story of our not-so-Blue Marble

A view of a Swiss mountain meadow, with a rock outcropping visible in the middle and small yellow flowers around the edges.

Alpine flower resolves sexual conflict through spacetime manipulation

You are a pretty little flower. You are Pulsatilla alpina, the alpine pasqueflower. You are have both male and female sexual machinery. This raises a conflict within you. All species that sexually reproduce have "sexual conflict," where sex-specific traits have different evolutionary arcs or are just straight-up in