Maura O’Connor discusses her new book, Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World.
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Scientists discovered microbes that have lived on Earth for millions of years.
White-nose syndrome is nearly as lethal to bats as the Black Plague was for humans.
They may be using an “air bridge” to do so.
In his book, Earth Emotions, Glenn Albrecht coins “psychoterratic.”
The beads are made from red-deer teeth, sourced from 63 individual deer.
There are reasons you look the way you do.
China’s Chang’e 4 biosphere experiment marks a first for humankind.
The suburbs are the spiritual home of overconsumption. But they also hold the key to a better future
Economic “degrowth” may be difficult to achieve, but a “prosperous descent” is possible.
A transformational tool for the future of the world.
The war machine needs fuel, perhaps so much as to make protecting oil redundant.
“In so far as bodily movements build the brain, every movement a human makes matters.”
Can sensitive coral reefs survive another human generation?
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Devil facial tumor disease, or DFTD, has cut the Tasmanian devil population by 90 percent. Now, some devils have evolved to resist the virulent cancer.
A study looks at the chemistry of couples engaged in different activities.
As long as we fail to name capitalism as a key cause of mass extinction, we will remain powerless to break its tragic story.
Disney, one of world’s largest entertainment companies, doubles down on its environmental plan.
“Slight,” applied to large populations, could still mean thousands of more boys.
By 2003, General Electric, now better known as GE, had a reputation problem. Its long-time image as a company at the forefront of a sparkling future had been shaken. After […]
Protected animals are feared to be headed for the black market.
Here are 7 often-overlooked World Heritage Sites, each with its own history.
In David Epstein’s ‘Range’, dabblers and dillettantes are ascendant.
All life as we know it relies on carbon and water. But researchers speculate this doesn’t have to be the case.
Behavioral ecology is a real science. But applying it to humans, with our social structures, is highly suspect. Imagine a scientist. Try closing your eyes and really picturing this person: envision […]
“This is a great example of a forest restoration plan which is both good for the people and good for nature,” one researcher said.
A climate catastrophe 2 billion years ago almost ended life on Earth. Here’s the biggest lesson of all. Although it was more than 4½ billion years ago that planet Earth formed, […]
As the world gets hotter, men may have fewer and fewer viable sperm
The climate change we’re witnessing is more dramatic than we might think.