Living World / Extinction

Protect the Future of Ice Cream... by Eating Ice Cream

Häagen-Dazs pitches in to protect the honeybee. 03.20.2008

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

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

Death By Cosmic Pinball

Astronomers triangulate the source of the dinosaur destroyer. 12.03.2007

Hearing the Footsteps of Extinct Animals

Researchers infer how animals moved by studying inner-ear gyroscopes. 09.20.2007

What Caused the Great American Extinction?

A comet may have decimated native animals—and culture. 07.25.2007

Think Tank

Top scientists pinpoint the greatest discoveries of the last 25 years and predict wonders yet to come 07.07.2005

Tusk Tales

A trail of DNA may lead us to the killers of Africa's elephants 06.05.2005

The Day Everything Died

The big knockdown fight in science these days is a debate about a cataclysm that occurred 250 million years ago 04.28.2005

Discover Dialogue: Conservationist Laurie Marker

We have loved the animal to near extinction 03.31.2005

Earth Without People

What would happen to our planet if the mighty hand of humanity simply disappeared? 02.06.2005

Environment

01.02.2004

When Good Trees Go Bad

Could a massive marine extinction have been caused by . . . trees? 11.18.2003

Works in Progress

The bug that can lead to peptic ulcers and stomach cancer is going extinct—for better or worse 02.01.2003

Works in Progress

What could have wiped out 95 percent of marine life—not to mention 70 percent of all species on land? 10.01.2001

The Cold Zone

Testing a new theory of mammoth extinction in 02.01.2001

20 Species We Might Lose

And then there were none. 10.01.2000

Hanging by a Thread

With all but a quarter of Hawaii's native birds extinct or endangered, and its other species dying off faster than the dinosaurs, some island ecologists are risking their lives to save what's left 02.01.2000

The Frog Killer

11.01.1998

Chain of Craters

08.01.1998

The Year in Science: Animals 1997

A Plague on Frogs 01.01.1998

The Year in Science: Animals 1997

A Plague on Frogs 01.01.1998

The Year in Science: Earth 1997

Craters Without Impact 01.01.1998

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

Death by Seltzer

01.01.1997

Thermal Vulture

10.01.1996

Cricket Comeback

01.01.1996

Cat Fight

Fewer than 50 Florida panthers are left. But not everyone agrees that we should rush to save them. 07.01.1992



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