Articles by

Carolyn Gramling

Coffee beans pooped out by civets really are tastier. Here’s why

The world’s most prized coffee comes from partially digested beans pooped out by the Asian palm civet....

Coral collapse signals Earth’s first climate tipping point

Earth has entered a grim new climate reality. The planet has officially passed its first climate tipping...

Antarctic krill eject more food when it’s contaminated with plastic

Antarctic krill keep revealing new superpowers. Euphausia superba, the Southern Ocean’s ubiquitous krill species, sequester large amounts...

Two of Greece’s most dangerous volcanoes share an underground link

An intense swarm of earthquakes around Greece’s Santorini Island in January has revealed a fiery underground link...

Crystallized dino eggs provide a peek into the tumultuous Late Cretaceous

Crystals hidden inside dinosaur eggs at a famous fossil site are giving scientists a chance to do...

Young pterosaurs probably died in violent Jurassic storms

The broken wings of two young pterosaurs may reveal how hundreds of their kind met their end...

20 years after Hurricane Katrina, is the U.S. better prepared? 

In late August 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast. The storm cut a deadly swath...

A Midwest ‘megaflash’ is the longest lightning on record

A massive bolt of lightning that lit up the sky from Dallas to Kansas City, Mo., in...