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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.

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Rogues of the Rainforest

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.

This Antarctic glacier is one of the remains of the once huge Larsen B ice shelf, which infamously collapsed in 2002 over the course of a single month. Such a large area of ice collapsing so quickly was an unprecedented event in scientific history. Photograph by Armin Rose / Shutterstock
Antarctica’s Upside Down World

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.