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CHICAGO - AUGUST 16: A walkway is visible along a side of the city of Chicago City Hall's rooftop garden August 16, 2006 in Chicago, Illinois. The garden sits on the top of the 11-story city hall building and was first planted in 2000. The city says the rooftop garden/green roof consists of upwards of 100 species of growth in almost 20,000 plants. Two trees, shrubs and vines can also be found there. (Photo by Tim Boyle/Getty Images)

The huge, untapped potential of planting rooftop gardens in cities

By Matt Simon / Grist

Iceberg underwater, Antarctica.

300-degree hot springs hiding under the frozen Antarctic sea

June 3, 2012 - An intense bloom of phytoplankton in the Black Sea, staining nearly every corner with a rich palette of teal, turquoise, green and milky blue. The Sea of Azov, to the northeast was also filled with swirls of color, including a touch of tan which may indicate not only phytoplankton, but sediment also circulates in those waters.

The tiny ocean organisms that could help the climate in a big way

By Matt Simon / Grist

A panoramic sand dune of sahara desert at Mhamid el Ghizlane in Morocco wide shot.

Saharan dust sustains life all over the Atlantic Ocean

Golden light illuminates a clear teapot of green tea and two glass cups with citrus slices. A cloche of biscuits and a small bowl sit behind them, while steam and long shadows create a calm, cozy tea-time mood.

What’s the secret to a great cup of tea?

By Amber Dance/Knowable Magazine

Artist’s impression of the lobate macrofossils living 2.1 billion years ago in a shallow marine inland sea created by the collision of two continents.

Study claims life tried to evolve 1.5 billion years earlier than we thought

How deep does life go?

By James Lawrence Powell / MIT Press Reader

These fossilized foraminiferan shells, dating back 35 to 45 million years, were found in Tanzania. They all belong to species that are now extinct. The largest are about half a millimeter in diameter.

The history of the ocean, as told by tiny beautiful fossils

By Tim Vernimmen / Knowable Magazine

The field team sampling a lake near Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, that browned after the extreme events.

Greenland’s lakes are getting uglier—and fast

By Lauren Leffer

choanoflagellate Choanoeca flexa

We are family: Tracing the evolution of animals

By Amber Dance/Knowable Magazine

Polymetallic nodules scattered across bottom of the ocean floor

‘Dark oxygen’ on ocean floor may rewrite Earth’s origins of life

Evolution, the process of change, governs life on Earth − and potentially different forms of life in other places.

Extraterrestrial life may look nothing like life on Earth

By Chris Impey / The Conversation

a microscopic zooplankton

Microscopic ‘eating and pooping machines’ are great at sucking up carbon

By Laura Baisas

Multiple reddish pink parasitic plants called balanophora growing in a forest. Balanophora shed one third of its genes as it evolved into a very streamlined parasitic plant.

These parasitic plants force their victims to make them dinner

By Laura Baisas

Elemental chromium

The same metal found on hot rods and Harleys could revolutionize solar panels

The surface of Europa – one of Jupiter’s moons – is a thick layer of solid ice.

Europa Clipper is one of two missions on their way to see if Jupiter’s moons could support life

By Mike Sori / The Conversation

The real ecological magic of whale poop

By Sandy Ong / Hakai Magazine

glass bowl filled with brown seaweed

Bye, kale: Marine scientists want you to eat more seaweed

By Alisha McDarris

A young Asian man heading to a clothes shelf in a store before taking a closer look at a t-shirt.

What your cheap clothes cost the planet

By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey & Rebecca Egan McCarthy / Grist

icebergs melting

Spending Christmas with ‘Dr. Doom’

By Sachi Kitajima Mulkey / Grist

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Tropical analysis meteorologist Aidan Mahoney works at his station at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, on May 30, 2025. The administration of US President Donald Trump has fired hundreds of staff at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and deleted government websites with data on the weather and climate. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP)

Why haven’t we had an Atlantic hurricane yet? Thank El Niño.

By Matt Simon / Grist

the backs of two eagles perched on a tree

Bald eagles Shadow and Kaydee share a peaceful morning, Jackie’s memorial service approaches

By Laura Baisas