Tag: Biodiversity
Old forests are critically important for slowing climate change and merit...
Beverly Law, Oregon State University and William Moomaw, Tufts University
Forests are an essential part of Earth’s operating system....
Computer science can help farmers explore alternative crops and sustainable farming methods
Barath Raghavan, University of Southern California and Michael Kantar, University of Hawaii
Humans have physically reconfigured half of the...
Is there life in the sea that hasn’t been discovered?
Suzanne OConnell, Wesleyan University
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If...
Colonialism has shaped scientific plant collections around the world – here’s...
Daniel Park, Purdue University
Some of the world’s most popular museums are natural history collections: Think of dinosaur fossils,...
Protecting the ocean: 5 essential reads on invasive species, overfishing and...
Jennifer Weeks, The Conversation
Humans rely on the ocean for many things, including food, jobs, recreation and stabilization of...
It’s not just climate – we’ve already breached most of the...
Steven J Lade, Australian National University; Ben Stewart-Koster, Griffith University; Stuart Bunn, Griffith University; Syezlin Hasan, Griffith University, and Xuemei Bai, Australian...
In protecting land for wildlife, size matters – here’s what it...
David Jachowski, Clemson University
Driving north on state Highway 66 through the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in central Montana,...
A shortage of native seeds is slowing land restoration across the...
Julia Kuzovkina, University of Connecticut and John Campanelli, University of Connecticut
Spring is planting time for home gardeners, landscapers...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
