Environment The Latest Casualty of Light Pollution Night lights from Australia's largest naval base muddles critical signals that the country's tammar wallabies need to re-produce. Kate Wheeling
Environment Lawmakers: You Don’t Have to Choose Between Cleaning the Air and Stabilizing the Climate A new study tells us how we can have both. Brian Palmer
Environment Shell’s Big Back-Down The oil giant announced that there simply isn't enough oil and natural gas to warrant any more drilling. Madeleine Thomas
Environment Should Humans Really Go to Mars? We must consider the possibility that going to Mars is just as much an act of grief in denial as an act of triumph in achievement. Alana Massey
Environment Chicago’s Catholic Churches See the Light—and Cut Their Carbon Emissions The Archdiocese of Chicago is acting on the pope’s environmental message. Susan Cosier
Environment King Crabs May Invade the Antarctic Continental Shelf Thanks to climate change, conditions are ripe for predatory crabs to invade the delicate marine communities off the coast of Antarctica, which haven't seen the likes of the skeleton-crushing crabs for millions of years. Kate Wheeling
Environment The Non-Rise of the Massive Data Breach Massive data breaches aren't getting any bigger, researchers say—but that might just mean the IT department is doing its job. Nathan Collins
Environment Taking Names, Saving Trees Brazil's program of increased enforcement in communities with high deforestation rates appears to have worked. Nathan Collins
Environment Coastal Communities Could Be in for Some Trouble A strong El Niño and La Niña could cause flooding and erosion along the Pacific, according to new research. Madeleine Thomas
Environment A Social Scientist, a Climate Change Physicist, and Pope Francis Walk Into a Bar… Combatting climate change means bringing together experts from a lot of different fields. Francie Diep