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Ecology

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The Sweet and Sticky History of the Date

by Seyward Darby November 9, 2022November 9, 2022

“Throughout the Middle East, the versatile fruit has been revered since antiquity. How will it fare in a changing world?”

A painting of a salamander walking through wetland
Posted inNonfiction

Dreaming of Water with Tiger Salamanders

by Sam Keck Scott March 22, 2022October 18, 2022

“There is no more urgent form of communication than going extinct.”

Posted inFeatured, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

On Trees as Social Creatures and Fungi as the ‘Fabric of the Forest’

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 10, 2020October 19, 2022

Trees were previously seen as individual and solitary organisms. But the research of Suzanne Simard shows otherwise.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Social Life of Forests

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 4, 2020October 19, 2022

“Trees appear to communicate and cooperate through subterranean networks of fungi. What are they sharing with one another?”

Posted inFeatured, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature

Seagulls Who Eat People Food Poop People Food on Protected Lands

by Aaron Gilbreath October 28, 2019October 19, 2022

Fast food is killing the human world. Now it could be killing California gulls’ protected island habitat.

Posted inFeatured, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature

Greenland’s Deepening Ecological Grief

by Krista Stevens August 19, 2019October 19, 2022

“We no longer understand it here. We don’t trust it.”

Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature

The Vital and Surprising Role of Driftwood

by Krista Stevens May 8, 2019October 19, 2022

Driftwood provides the necessary habitat and shelter that feeds a raft of marine life all the way up the food chain.

Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Science & Nature

The Difficult Case for Assisted Plant Migration

by Aaron Gilbreath April 22, 2019October 19, 2022

To protect them from climate change, concerned citizens are moving clones of California’s ancient sequoias to Oregon in a process known as assisted migration, but should they?

Posted inHighlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature

The Bat-Borne Virus That Threatens to Become the Next Pandemic

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 20, 2018October 19, 2022

Steven Bedard, a former field biologist, travels around Bangladesh with a team of public health investigators studying Nipah, a bat-borne virus with the potential to become the next pandemic.

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Reservoir

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 19, 2018October 19, 2022

Steven Bedard, a former field biologist, travels around Bangladesh with a team of public health investigators studying Nipah, a bat-borne virus with the potential to become the next pandemic.

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