ecology
Is It Time to Stop Protecting the Grizzly Bear?
But the ESA was only meant to safeguard against “reasonably foreseeable future threats,” Willms argues. Congress has the ability to ...
Life on Earth Depends on Networks of Ocean Bacteria
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Prochlorococcus bacteria are so small that you’d have to line ...
This Tropical Virus Is Spreading Out of the Amazon to the US and Europe
outbreaks of Oropouche virus have flared up in the Amazon for decades, but historically the pathogen has little troubled the ...
How Christmas Trees Could Become a Source of Low-Carbon Protein
Planting forests while growing protein-rich food seems like a win-win, so are there any potential drawbacks? Lynne Boddy, professor of ...
The Secret Electrostatic World of Insects
When England’s team exposed caterpillars to electric fields similar to those generated by a flying wasp, caterpillars displayed defensive behaviors ...
No, the Seine Cleanup Wasn’t a Failure
Despite the creation of multiple stormwater reservoirs, like the Bassin d’Austerlitz, which collect stormwater and slowly release it after the ...
