Erik Stokstad

Washington, D.C., United States

Reporter at Science Magazine, covering environmental research & issues. Tweets focus on news from the scientific literature. Views my own.

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Articles

Tropical forests are heating up. Can they cope?

2 weeks ago | science.org | Erik Stokstad

1.0x Volume is at 50% 00:00 16:38 1.0x Audio is AI-generated. Report an issue|Give feedback It was an experiment ahead of its time. Working in his laboratory in Breslau, Prussia, botanist Julius von Sachs placed a large glass bell jar over a flowerpot and heated it from below with alcohol burners.
Why peanut allergy is so common and hot forests as test beds for climate change

2 weeks ago | science.org | Sarah Crespi |Erik Stokstad

First up on the podcast, Staff Writer Erik Stokstad talks with host Sarah Crespi about how scientists are probing the world’s hottest forests to better understand how plants will cope with climate change. His story is part of a special issue on plants and heat, which includes reviews and perspectives on the fate of plants in a warming world. Next on the show, “convergent” antibodies may underlie the growing number of people allergic to peanuts.
Tropical forests are heating up. Can they cope?

2 weeks ago | f.mtr.cool | Erik Stokstad

1.0x 00:00 16:38 1.0x It was an experiment ahead of its time. Working in his laboratory in Breslau, Prussia, botanist Julius von Sachs placed a large glass bell jar over a flowerpot and heated it from below with alcohol burners.
Explorers of Ukrainian caves may have brought deadly bat fungus to U.S.

1 month ago | science.org | Erik Stokstad

Nearly 20 years ago, bats began dying from a mysterious disease in New York, their faces covered with a white fungus. Soon the pathogen, Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd), had spread across much of the United States and Canada, decimating several bat species—yet its origins remained unclear.
These crabs cast bright beams of light with their heads

1 month ago | science.org | Erik Stokstad

$Please enter a valid amountEmail:Please enter a valid emailCountry:Ialso wish to receive emails from AAAS/Science and Science advertisers,including information on products, services and special offers which mayinclude but are not limited to news, careers information & upcomingevents. Support nonprofit science journalismSophisticated, trustworthy reporting about science has never been more important.
Herring had a spawning ‘culture.’ Overfishing obliterated it

1 month ago | science.org | Erik Stokstad

Call it the case of the missing herring. For more than a century, the world’s biggest stock of the oily, nutritious fish has migrated to spawn every year in the same waters off southern Norway, where fishing vessels wait to haul away the rich catch. But in 2021 only a few herring arrived, leaving crews with empty nets and pressing questions.
U.S. scientists’ lives and careers are being upended. Here are five of their stories

1 month ago | science.org | Sara Reardon |Jeffrey Mervis |Phie Jacobs |Erik Stokstad

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U.S. scientists’ lives and careers are being upended. Here are five of their stories

1 month ago | science.org | Phie Jacobs |Sara Reardon |Erik Stokstad |Jeffrey Mervis

Amid the grant terminations, program cuts, federal firings, disappearing databases, and myriad other disruptions U.S. science has seen during the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s administration, researchers are facing an uncertain future. Those studying hot-button topics such as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), vaccines, and transgender health are squarely in the crosshairs, but the turmoil extends much further.
‘Major breakthrough’: A natural gene variant protects rice from heat waves

1 month ago | science.org | Erik Stokstad

Rice plants usually love warmth. But when they start to flower, hot nights can result in meager harvests and chalky grain. So far, breeders have made slow progress in solving these challenges, which are becoming more urgent with climate change. Now, after searching for more than a decade, researchers in China have found a culpable gene, which they describe this week in Cell. They also show that a natural variant of the gene can preserve both yield and rice quality when temperatures rise.
A caterpillar that haunts spiderwebs, solving the last riddles of a famed friar, and a new book series

2 months ago | science.org | Sarah Crespi |Erik Stokstad |Kevin McLean |Valerie Thompson

University of Hawaii Insect Systematics and Biodiversity lab First up on the podcast, bringing Gregor Mendel’s peas into the 21st century. Back in the 19th century Mendel, a friar and naturalist, tracked traits in peas such as flower color and shape over many generations. He used these observations to identify basic concepts about inheritance such as recessive and dominant traits. Staff Writer Erik Stokstad talks with host Sarah Crespi about the difficulty of identifying genes for these...