Nature and Science

Sunlight can drop without anyone noticing Most people think of a bad harvest as a local problem. Too much rain. Not enough rain.

People tend to think of squid “flashing” as a vague shimmer, like a quick mood ring.

If you’ve ever seen a kayak paddle flash electric blue in the dark, it can feel like the water is “turning on.” This isn’t tied to one single bay.

If you’ve ever walked through a damp forest and seen mushrooms pushing up after rain, it’s easy to forget they’re only the visible tip of something much.

A smell that shows up before the rain is even over After a dry spell, the first minutes of rain can smell like damp soil and old stone.

A pond can look like a pond, even when it’s quietly making greenhouse gas. That’s the odd part about thawing ground in the Arctic.

Why would a squid glow unevenly?

What a tree ring is actually recording People tend to think of tree rings as a simple birthday count.

If you shake a bottle of fizzy mineral water and crack the cap, you don’t just get water. You get clues about what was dissolved inside it.

People often notice seagrass when it tangles a propeller or brushes their ankles in shallow water.