commons.wikimedia.org Can California tourism survive climate change? The most popular state for tourism in the U.S. endured record wildfires, drought and flooding just this year. “The rate of change has been so dramatic,” says one local scientist. “If I was the California tourism industry, I’d be really worried.”
Solutions www.nytimes.com The freshwater giants are dying Overharvesting and habitat loss endanger most of the world’s freshwater “megafauna.” But many species may yet be saved.
Newsletter nautil.us Learning to speak shrub Using molecular codes, plants cry for help, ward off bugs, and save each other.
Op-ed: “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you” — disabling environments in Cancer Alley and the Ohio River Valley