2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (907+ words) Plants use past temperatures to guide flowering, with different genes tracking seasonal conditions across days, weeks, and months. Plants do not have brains, but they still keep track of the past. For a plant waiting through winter, yesterday’s temperature is…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (863+ words) Scientists developed a new method to identify where strain is building along major faults, revealing where massive earthquakes are more likely to strike. Nobody can tell you exactly when an earthquake will hit. But a team of scientists has gotten…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1116+ words) Coastal tides can differ measurably between neighboring beaches, and 40 years of satellite images now map them every 330 feet. A tide table reads like a fact about one beach. Along most of the coast, the instruments behind it sit far apart,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1061+ words) Scientists combined a century of ground uplift data with earthquake physics to forecast the size and timing of quake swarms at Italy's Campi Flegrei caldera. Pozzuoli is a port town built inside the Campi Flegrei caldera in southern Italy. Its…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (830+ words) Decades-old museum collections from La Brea have revealed a bone belonging to a new species of Ice Age amphibian, a type of spadefoot toad. The most sensitive climate instrument at La Brea Tar Pits is not a mammoth. It is…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (862+ words) How teachers frame nature can shape children's interest in environmental issues, with human-centered lessons producing a stronger short-term response. Ask a room of ten-year-olds why a wetland is worth protecting, and it turns out the answer you give them matters…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1008+ words) Plate tectonics loads a fault over centuries, but something else usually decides the moment it finally breaks. Research on California seismicity shows that groundwater cycles, stress from neighboring ruptures, and fluid injected underground can all nudge a fault past its…...

4+ week, 7+ hour ago   (1073+ words) A new California wildfire map reveals where homes face the greatest danger and shows how fences, dry air, heat, and vegetation shape damage risk. People in fire country clear the brush, put mesh over the vents, and pay for a…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (668+ words) Fast-moving wildfires kill seed-producing trees, leaving western forests less able to recover and more likely to become shrublands or grasslands. Wildfires tearing across the American West and Canada may be burning so intensely that the hardest-hit forests never return to…...