Jane C. Hu is an independent journalist living in Seattle. She’s a regular contributor to Slate’s Future Tense, and her work has appeared in publications like Undark, The Guardian, High Country News, WIRED, Smithsonian, National Geographic, The Atlantic, Science, and others. She teaches science writing at the University of Washington.
Tropical vines are wandering, as they always have, but recent environmental changes are giving them an edge over other rainforest plants—a shift that could have enduring impacts on climates around the globe.
Clinging to the underside of ice hundreds of meters thick, strange communities of sea life eke out a living in perpetual darkness. Now, researchers are racing to find and study these creatures before they—and their ice sheets—disappear.