

Agents for Change Sep 10

From Angola to the former Yugoslavia, land mines are a lethal legacy of wars over long ago. Cambodia is among the most affected countries, with millions of buried explosives that kill and maim people each year. Now, an organization is…
By Fred de Sam Lazaro
World Sep 05

In the Amazon rainforest, record-breaking forest fires and ongoing deforestation threaten the survival of thousands of plant and animal species that call the ecosystem home. Scientists seeking to save them are carefully evaluating which areas of the vibrant Amazon biome…
By Amna Nawaz, Mike Fritz
Science Aug 23

Chippy the shark’s tag, containing a full 30 days of precious information on great white shark behavior, had arrived on a beach on an island more than 2,000 miles away and 15 months after he had swallowed it.
By Vicky Stein
Arts Aug 16

Walton Ford is a painter whose work examines the relationship between humans and animals in the wild. These creatures, he believes, “would rather be left alone.” As a child, Walton was always inspired by the natural world and would bring…
Jun 26

By Berly McCoy
Everyone wants to save the bees, but we may be saving them to death.
May 14

By Vicky Stein
Gene-editing with CRISPR reveals why snail shells are asymmetrical and coil either left or right.
They wouldn’t survive the deserts of Tatooine or the frigid planet Hoth, but these newly described, tarantula-like spiders are named after the stormtroopers who marched through the “Star Wars” movies.
Feb 06

By Vicky Stein
Despite their “miniature brains,” honeybees can harness both long-term rules and short-term memory in order to solve math problems.
The fictional Sherlock Holmes could read footprints — in soil, snow, carpet, dust and even blood. Researchers today are similarly using tracks caught in stone — plus a robot — to recreate a creature that lived 300 million years ago.
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