Environment / Biodiversity

Recall of the Wild

Captive breeding may sound great, but the captives don't do so well in nature. 05.05.2008

George Schaller's Grand Plan to Save the Marco Polo Sheep

"Obviously humans are evolution’s greatest mistake," says the conservationist. 02.21.2008

Did Life Evolve in Ice?

Funky properties of frozen water may have made life possible. 02.01.2008

96. And Here's Why You Have an Appendix:

When you're sick, it re-boots your gut with good bacteria. 01.15.2008

Attack of the Giant (Extinct) Insects!

They just don't make two-foot dragonflies like they used to. Here's why. 11.02.2007

Halloween Science: Bacteria of the Living Dead

Chop up their DNA and the buggers still keep comin' back to life. 10.31.2007

The Last Unexplored Place on Earth

Scientists race to discover the secret world buried miles beneath Antarctica. 09.28.2007

Frigid Antarctic Seas Boil Over with Biodiversity

Researchers find 750 new species, including the carnivorous moonsnail. 08.09.2007

Watching the Birth—and Death—of an Island

In the South Pacific, the crew of a yacht saw new land form right beneath their boat. 08.08.2007

Better Planet: Beepocalypse

Can we save honey bees from Colony Collapse Disorder? 06.28.2007

Your Body Is a Planet

90% of the cells within us are not ours but microbes'. 06.19.2007

Sweeping The Ocean Floor

Strange sea creatures caught on film for the first time 06.13.2007

The Exact Cost of Diversity

Temperatures can affect how new fast species arise. 09.01.2006

Revenge of the Venison

Deer beat black bears to the berry bushes. 08.01.2006

Barren Jungles, Beautiful Deserts

Life's bounty, where you least expect to find it 06.25.2006

It's Not The Size Of The Fish

Scientists spar over who's got the smallest. 05.28.2006

Biodiversity - It's What's for Dinner

Biodiversity - It's What's For Dinner 02.20.2006

The Mother of Gardens

Countless plants Americans tend with pride all came from the wilds of China. 08.06.2005

Pushing Phylocode

What if we decide to rename every living thing on Earth? 04.28.2005

A Naturalist's Paradise

In a wonderland called Madagascar, a modern-day Darwin discovers hundreds of new species 03.31.2005

Trees

Visual proof that ancient is better 12.03.2004

Lush Life

An Australian sand plain with wretched soil mysteriously yields more diversity than a rain forest 12.03.2003

Environment

01.01.2003

Sailing the Sea of Life

For centuries the Sargasso was seen as a desert drifting in an ocean. Now scientists are rediscovering it as a nursery of biodiversity 03.01.2002

Flesh-eating Plants

Where rocks sing, ants swim, and plants eat animals 10.01.2001

That is

04.01.2001

To Save a Watering Hole

If Reuven Yosef doesn't win his fight against developers in Israel's hottest resort town, half of Europe's birds might disappear 09.01.2000

Peter the Great

This guy turns a sleepy azalea park into one of the best botanical gardens in the hemisphere, so now he thinks he can save the world too? 10.01.1999

Beasts in the Mist

If David Oren can find just one monstrous sloth he could save the world's largest rain forest. 09.01.1999

Whole Lotta Bugs

12.01.1998

The Ur-Plant

DNA analysis reveals the identity of the first plants. 11.01.1998

Fossil Flies

08.01.1998

Light Elements: Pigeons on Parade

Breeders have created head ruffs, chest frills,and fantails for the lowly, abused bird. 04.01.1998

Light Elements:Pigeons on Parade

Breeders have created head ruffs, chest frills,and fantails for the lowly, abused bird. 03.01.1998

A Secret History of Life on Land

Paleontologist Stephen Hasiotis is finding what his colleagues have long overlooked: nests, hives, and trackways that are tens of millions of years older than anyone thought they could be. 02.01.1998

The Year in Science: Animals 1997

Amazing Amazonians 01.01.1998

The Year in Science: Animals 1997

Antic Frogs 01.01.1998

Life on the Edge

12.01.1997

The Colors of Bugs

11.01.1997

When Earth Tumbled

11.01.1997

Family Man

The family is an intimate stage upon which evolution's play unfolds, and all Earth's creatures -- humans and birds, for example -- are equally accomplished players. 10.01.1997

At Home With the Jellies

The best plan in the open sea is to be gelatinous. Failing that, you should grab onto something that is. 09.01.1997

Mr. Wallace's Line

Through the ocean just east of Borneo runs an invisible line that separates the world of tigers from the world of kangaroos. Getting across that line may have seen what made our ancestors truly human. 08.01.1997

Mass Extinctions Come to Ohio

To appreciate the global biodiversity catastrophe, you don't need to go to Madagascar or Sarawak. A river in Ohio will do. 06.01.1997

On the Origin of (Amazonian) Species

How did the Amazon achieve its stunning diversity? Some say great rivers are responsible, others point to vanished hills and seas. Now one team of zoologists is listening to what the rats have to say. 04.01.1997

The Sultan of Splat

03.01.1997

When Life Was Odd

Some 600 million years ago, a bizarre group of creatures arose. They had no heads, no tails, no eyes or mouths. They looked like nothing else that has since lived on earth. They were long thought to have been an evolutionary dead end. They may have been our ancestors. 03.01.1997

Soft Silurians

11.01.1996

Social Shrimps

09.01.1996

The Secret Life of Backyard Trees

Ecologists are finding undescribed species and ecosystems in treetops. 11.01.1995

Coming Onto the Land

The evolution of fish into walking land animals was one of the greatest chapters in the history of life. Now a remarkable fossil creature shows that all the real excitement happened underwater. 06.01.1995

Better Bent Than Broken

Mother nature is a real softy: many of her structures won't stand up to the gentlest breeze. So why isn't she collapsing around our ears? 05.01.1995

Life on a Grain of Sand

If you're looking for hallucinatory life-forms, as well as some of the greatest biodiversity on Earth, head for the nearest beach. And bring a shovel. 04.01.1995



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