Warren Cornwall

Current efforts to help coral evolve heat tolerance are moving too slowly to outrun global warming. Scientists propose a moon-shot level research program to engineer evolution.

Scientists scooping eDNA from buckets of East River water discovered a powerful new tool for monitoring cities—one that costs far less than the alternatives, and misses very little.

Antibiotic-resistance genes turned up at 9X the levels in natural lakes. Researchers say "sponge city” infrastructure requires smarter stormwater engineering.

Wine drinkers know that place shapes flavor. Researchers in the Philippines found that the same is true of honey—and that terroir could be a powerful tool to map biodiversity, expose fake honey, and replant vanishing forests.

Sensors strapped to 19 sharks off America's east coast cut errors in a leading climate model by as much as 43%. Fisheries managers could benefit.

In a 2021 paper in the PNAS ), Campos-Silva and colleagues documented these and other benefits.

Ecologists drowning in 3.8 million photos teamed up with Google to test whether algorithms could replace the human eye. The animals didn't notice the difference.

A 15-year field experiment in Kenya reveals that dung beetles—and the ecosystem services they provide—collapse when elephants disappear, offering evidence of coextinction in the wild.

Scientists tap into Pavlov's experiment to show they can train mosquitoes to love the smell of DEET.

For decades, we've catalogued what we're losing to climate change. A sweeping new study offers something harder to find—evidence that one of the planet's most vital coastal ecosystems is actually winning.