The Thrill-Seeker's Travel Guide
5 difficult journeys to excite even the bravest science buff. 04.15.2008
86. World’s First Trees Unearthed
01.15.2008
72. Crust Formed Early In Earth’s History
01.14.2008
Captive Wilderness
In the wildest place in the continental United States, visitors flirt with untrammeled nature, while scientists try to study, defend, and preserve it. 08.01.2006
Barren Jungles, Beautiful Deserts
Life's bounty, where you least expect to find it 06.25.2006
Don't Fear The Quicksand
02.20.2006
The Rise And Fall of Planet Earth
01.21.2006
Are the Desert People Winning?
There's a big difference between people from forests and those from arid lands. 08.06.2005
Keeping An Eye on an Awakening Giant
03.31.2005
Where Mighty Mountains Roam Free
01.02.2005
Trees
Visual proof that ancient is better 12.03.2004
Discover Data
10.01.2004
The Forest-Fire Healer
10.01.2004
Return of the King of Trees
Can biologists resurrect the mighty chestnut that once dominated the forests of eastern America? 05.29.2004
Geology
01.02.2004
Rivers Ran to It
01.02.2004
Lush Life
An Australian sand plain with wretched soil mysteriously yields more diversity than a rain forest 12.03.2003
Ask Discover
Ask Discover 11.22.2003
Salvage the Trees, Spoil the Forest
05.01.2003
Oh, Deer
Exploding populations of white-tailed deer are stripping our forests of life 03.01.2003
Environment
01.01.2003
If All The Trees Fall in the Forest
Two sleuthing scientists track down the cause of sudden oak death, a new disease that threatens every oak, redwood, and Douglas fir in the country 12.01.2002
Science Travel
The narrow road up Mauna Kea leads to the deep sky 08.01.2002
The Life, Death, and Life of a Tree
The only real threat the majestic redwood has ever faced is us 05.01.2002
Environment
Year In Science 01.13.2002
Works in Progress
Even the best technology in the world can't seem to calculate how high this mountain really is 05.01.2000
Avalanche!
If a scientist stands in the way of 150 tons of snow crashing down a mountain at 50 mph, can he figure out why it let loose and when it will again? 12.01.1999
Under the Volcano
Look out Tacoma and Seattle. Majestic Mount Rainier is overdue for a shattering and deadly eruption 11.01.1999
A Shot in the Woods
10.01.1999
Beasts in the Mist
If David Oren could find just one of the horrifying creatures he knows are out there-- huge sloths with giant claws and a reputation for twisting off the heads of humans--he could save the world's largest rain forest 09.01.1999
Desert Trove
02.01.1999
A Briquette a Day
07.01.1998
The Year in Science: Earth 1997
A Sleeping Mountain Wakes 01.01.1998
The Year in Science: Plants 1997
New Harmony on Main Street 01.01.1998
Life on the Edge
12.01.1997
The Web Below
11.01.1997
Falling Flanks
10.01.1997
Singing Sand
08.01.1997
Raising the Rockies
04.01.1997
Travels of America
Half a billion years ago, a large chunk of North America went missing. That chunk has now turned up in the Andes of Argentina. 09.01.1996
Russia's Black Future
02.01.1996
The Dolomite Problem
02.01.1996
The Vertical Forest
Canadian researchers have found a bizarre, ancient forest that may be the slowest-growing on Earth. They didn't have to travel to Yakutsk or Tasmania to find it--they had only to look at a cliff not far from Toronto. 02.01.1996
Stomping on the Trees
01.01.1996
State of the Earth: 1995
01.01.1996
Return of the Wolves
01.01.1996
A Giant's Malaise
03.02.1995
The High Life
Why do mountains kill some people--or make them so ill they may wish they were dead--while leaving others quite unscathed? 10.01.1993
The Trembling Giant
The quaking aspen, one of this country's most beautiful trees, also makes up the world's most massive organism. 10.01.1993
An Untidy Wonder
For two decades a team of scientists has been trying to find out what makes a forest work. 10.01.1992
Caterpillar Cadillacs
03.01.1992