Environment
The changes and wonders of the natural world—and how human interaction influences animals, the ocean, and the rest of the environment.
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![A satellite image of the western coast of Africa. A grey haze extends out over the Atlantic Ocean from the desert.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/14/duststorm_virs_2022156_lrg-scaled.jpeg?w=675)
Climate Change
Why NASA is sending a dust-scanning spectrometer to the ISS
![Why floods in mountainous regions are getting worse](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/14/virginia-flood.jpg?w=600)
Climate Change
Why floods in mountainous regions are getting worse
![Seagrass](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/13/seagrass-mexico-human-pee.jpg?w=600)
Conservation
Human pee could be the fertilizer seagrass needs
![Red fox with eyes closed and teeth bared](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/01/red-fox-ears-teeth.jpg?w=600)
Animals
Can I have a pet fox?
![Field of pearl millet grain crops](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/05/pearl-millet-gd6f8af3a8_1920.jpg?w=711)
Agriculture
Pee makes for great fertilizer. But is it safe?
![Boat leaving cruise ship on the ocean.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/27/pexels-pixabay-327337-scaled.jpg?w=671)
Climate Change
Care about the planet? Skip the cruise, for now.
![Three jugs of milk on sidewalk.](https://www.popsci.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/23/elizabeth-dunne-ccV4kUrSYIM-unsplash-scaled.jpg?w=600)
Agriculture