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Biodiversity
Once land plants, seagrasses staged one of evolution’s boldest reversals — returning to the ocean and reinventing their biology to thrive beneath the waves.
Well before plants and animals, there were fungi.
Maybe — just don't expect a carbon copy.
In "After the Spike," Dean Spears and Michael Geruso show why policy, rather than high population density, has the most significant impact on the environment.
Around the world, biofuels, so-called green energy sources, are waving major red flags.
Off-the-shelf consumer technology is helping people pursue their interests — and advancing science at the same time.
A member of a species that kills trees, this mushroom is not the first to be called the Humongous Fungus — and perhaps not the last.
Early modern humans interbred with Neanderthals — and scientists recently pinpointed a key site of contact.
Think twice before stepping on that crunchy top layer of soil.
Slowing growth and limiting development isn’t living in harmony with nature—it is surrendering in a battle.
Researchers are working nest by nest to limit the threat while developing better eradication methods.
New tests to detect species being traded, as well as population studies, aim to help save them.
Although mammals may be the dominant form of life today, we're relative newcomers on planet Earth. Here's our place in natural history.
As the world warms, trees in forests such as those in Minnesota will no longer be adapted to their local climates. That’s where assisted migration comes in.
13.8 columnist Marcelo Gleiser reflects on his recent voyage to Earth's last wild continent.
As wind power grows around the world, so does the threat the turbines pose to wildlife. From simple fixes to high-tech solutions, new approaches can help.
Without even realizing it, we’ve actually become pretty god-like in our powers.
These nematodes complicate how we understand evolutionary lineages.
Hundreds of millions of animals get killed for meat every day.
The problem with carnivores turned omnivores.
After turning up hundreds of genes with hard-to-predict effects, some scientists are now probing the grander developmental processes that shape face geometry.
This minimalist map unties Asia’s mountainous geography, centered on the “Pamir Knot.”
The potential benefits of returning the thylacine to Australia make the project worth the effort.
AI is helping us replace petrochemicals with natural enzymes.
Lab-grown meat may work better as a complement to animal agriculture rather than a replacement of it.
A marine reptile fossil from Svalbard challenges ideas about evolution and Earth’s greatest mass extinction.
The crisis of the Anthropocene challenges our traditional narratives and myths about humanity's place in the world. Citizen science can help.
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