
Climate Change Hits Rock and Roll as Prized Guitar Wood Shortage Looms
Flooding and a wood-boring beetle threaten supplies of storied “swamp ash”

Priyanka Runwal is a science and environmental journalist living in New York City. Credit: Nick Higgins

Flooding and a wood-boring beetle threaten supplies of storied “swamp ash”

In Guyanese savannas, a fungus infects grasslike plants, sterilizes them and produces bizarre all-fungal “flower” doppelgängers

To remain active in frigid environments, the bald notothen drastically adjusts oxygen in its blood

As development and rising seas diminish roosting sites, shell-filled bags provide “islands” to rest and refuel

One variety alerts neighbors to keep pests at bay
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