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Urban Evolution: How Life Is Adapting to Concrete Jungles

Urban Evolution: How Life Is Adapting to Concrete Jungles

Urban Evolution: How Life Is Adapting to Concrete Jungles Perhaps the question isn’t urban versus rural living, but to approach both ecologically and ask: How am I changing the story of this place?

The Overview Deep Ecology

Supreme Court Blocks Roundup Cancer Lawsuits

Supreme Court Blocks Roundup Cancer Lawsuits

Supreme Court Blocks Roundup Cancer Lawsuits The ruling protects corporations from failure-to-warn claims—and could reshape how Americans seek accountability for dangerous products.

Democracy Science & Nature

A Fight Over Offshore Drilling In a Seaside Town Gets Heated

A Fight Over Offshore Drilling In a Seaside Town Gets Heated

A Fight Over Offshore Drilling In a Seaside Town Gets Heated A fight over offshore drilling gets heated as national energy politics land in a seaside town’s backyard.

The Understory Democracy

Photograph of yellowish, cloudy skies with streak of lightning.

Photograph of yellowish, cloudy skies with streak of lightning.

Warming Skies Have Triggered a New Era of Unpredictable Storms The atmosphere is holding more heat and more moisture. What happens when storms start breaking the boundaries that once made them legible?

Science & Nature

Photograph of the Pamir Mountains

Photograph of the Pamir Mountains

The Nomadic Communities Navigating a Warming Third Pole Photographer Zachary Handley documents Kyrgyz nomadic communities in the Pamir Mountains.

Photography Identity & Community

Fungal map of Earth

Fungal map of Earth

A Hidden Universe: Underground Fungi Could Stretch to the Sun Nearly a Billion Times Below the surface on which all our human feats and follies unfold, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi form a vastly interwoven matrix.

The Overview Deep Ecology

Off-center photograph of a gas station with GAS WAR written where company name would be.

Off-center photograph of a gas station with GAS WAR written where company name would be.

The White House’s Energy Policies Are Costing Americans Dearly Our wallets are taking the hit from an outdated focus on fossil fuels.

The Understory Democracy

How Tourism Saved the Elusive Ghost Leopard From Extinction

How Tourism Saved the Elusive Ghost Leopard From Extinction

How Tourism Saved the Elusive Ghost Leopard From Extinction In the remote Indian region of Ladakh, social media helped turn the snow leopard from feared predator into conservation icon.

Science & Nature Climate Solutions

Two jellyfish swim in the depth of the ocean.

Two jellyfish swim in the depth of the ocean.

Exquisite Mystery: The Beauty of Being Unfathomable The universe is at times lustrously clear and at others impenetrably obscure; yet, it is always worthy of awe.

The Overview Deep Ecology

The Winter’s Snow Drought Is Now a Full-Blown Water Crisis

The Winter’s Snow Drought Is Now a Full-Blown Water Crisis

The Winter’s Snow Drought Is Now a Full-Blown Water Crisis The West's missing snowpack has teed up a dangerous summer drought.

The Understory Democracy

Corncrakes

Corncrakes

Robert Macfarlane on How to Love Birds in a Time of Loss In The Book of Birds, Macfarlane and illustrator Jackie Morris reckon with a world losing its avian abundance.

Science & Nature Changemakers

The Birds and the Bees Revisited: An Introduction to Queer Ecology

The Birds and the Bees Revisited: An Introduction to Queer Ecology

The Birds and the Bees Revisited: An Introduction to Queer Ecology In this archive edition of The Overview, Willow Defebaugh reflects on nature and queerness.

The Overview Queer Ecology

An ice cream cone and melted ice cream on the pavement.

An ice cream cone and melted ice cream on the pavement.

A Looming Super El Niño Spells a Summer of Extremes In a world already overheating we are woefully unprepared for another record-setting season.

The Understory Science & Nature

A Scientific Case for Climate Optimism with Tom Crowther

A Scientific Case for Climate Optimism with Tom Crowther

A Scientific Case for Climate Optimism with Tom Crowther In Nature’s Echo, the ecologist shows climate repair can spread through landscapes and communities the way collapse already does.

Science & Nature Changemakers

The Ancient Flower That Survived Syria’s Wars Faces A New Threat

The Ancient Flower That Survived Syria’s Wars Faces A New Threat

The Ancient Flower That Survived Syria’s Wars Faces A New Threat Photographer Emily Garthwaite documents the farmers, distillers, and communities trying to protect a rose central to Syrian history.

Photography

The Wingspan of Friendship: How a Giant Manta Changed One Diver’s Life

The Wingspan of Friendship: How a Giant Manta Changed One Diver’s Life

The Wingspan of Friendship: How a Giant Manta Changed One Diver’s Life In the new documentary, The Last Dive, a unique bond formed between a man and manta ray reminds us of the power of interspecial friendship.

The Overview Deep Ecology