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Children play in the fountains at Dilworth Park in Philadelphia.

Feeling Hot Hot Hot

Cities grapple with heat waves.

Feature Article

Dec. 28, 2020

A peach picked in an orchard in Contra Costa, California

Exposed Orchards

A valley grows unsettled about the lack of fog.

Feature Article

Dec. 27, 2020

Photograph of Mount McKinley

Drying in Denali

Scientists search for the causes of shrinking Alaskan wetlands.

Feature Article

Dec. 27, 2020

Honeybees are helping remote sensing scientists understand how earlier spring arrival might affect plant-pollinator relationships.

Clues in the Nectar

Honeybees signal a worrisome trend in plant-pollinator relationships.

Feature Article

Dec. 27, 2020

Algae clogs a lagoon in Toluca Valley, Mexico. Factories and homes that deplete the valley’s aquifers dump their wastewater here. (Courtesy P. Castellazzi)

Closed Season

In Mexico’s escalating water crisis, a view from the sky provides answers.

Feature Article

Dec. 27, 2020

A blue-green algal bloom on Lake Taihu, China, threatened drinking water supplies.

Cleaner Water from Space

Scientists use satellites to help keep water fit to drink.

Feature Article

Dec. 27, 2020

In this photograph, taken eleven years after the Charlton Fire in Oregon’s Willamette National Forest, a majority of snags still stand while gradually new vegetation is recovering.

Burned But Not Forgotten

Decades after a fire, high-elevation forests still shape a climate.

Feature Article

Dec. 27, 2020

This juniper-covered savanna is one example of a biome in arid New Mexico that includes carbon-sequestering vegetation.

Biomes in the Balance

How are landscapes in the Southwest adapting?

Feature Article

Dec. 27, 2020

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