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Healthy corals like these on Australia's Lady Elliot Reef could disappear by the 2030s if climate change is not curbed. Rebecca Spindler, CC BY-ND

Coral reefs are some of the oldest, most diverse ecosystems on Earth, and among the most valuable. They

Read more …As climate change and pollution imperil coral reefs, scientists are deep-freezing corals to...

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Dig into soil and you'll find rock dust but also thousands of living species. ChristinLola/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to

Read more …What is dirt? There’s a whole wriggling world alive in the ground beneath our feet, as a soil...

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Extreme fires leave forests struggling to recover in a warming world. Mark Kreider

In the U.S., wildland firefighters are able to stop about 98% of all wildfires before the fires have burned even 100 acres. That may seem comforting, but decades of quickly

Read more …Fighting every wildfire ensures the big fires are more extreme, and may harm forests’ ability to...

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Climate change complicates plant choices and care. Early flowering and late freezes can kill flowers like these magnolia blossoms. Matt Kasson, CC BY-ND

With the arrival of spring in North America, many people are gravitating to the gardening and landscaping

Read more …Climate change is shifting the zones where plants grow – here’s what that could mean for your garden

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