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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

A prolonged drought across Texas desiccates plants and dries up livestock watering holes. (Courtesy AgriLife Today)

Drought on the Range

Ranchers want to know what to do about dry spells.

Feature Article

Dec. 27, 2020

A Bedouin shepherd tends his sheep amid a parched landscape in Syria. (Courtesy J. Werner)

Crisis in the Crescent

Drought turns the Fertile Crescent into a dust bowl.

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

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

Mnemiopsis leidyi is a species of ctenophore, or comb jelly, that is native to the western Atlantic Ocean and invasive in many European seas.

A Spread of Green

People and heat spread north into Arctic permafrost.

Feature Article

Dec. 27, 2020

Mountain glaciers, such as Colony Glacier in Alaska, often terminate in a lake.

A Glacial Pace

Satellites keep an eye on ice loss and gain in Alaska.

Feature Article

Dec. 27, 2020

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