White-nose syndrome is nearly as lethal to bats as the Black Plague was for humans.
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They may be using an “air bridge” to do so.
The beads are made from red-deer teeth, sourced from 63 individual deer.
In his book, Earth Emotions, Glenn Albrecht coins “psychoterratic.”
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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A study looks at the chemistry of couples engaged in different activities.
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.
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.
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 […]
In David Epstein’s ‘Range’, dabblers and dillettantes are ascendant.
“This is a great example of a forest restoration plan which is both good for the people and good for nature,” one researcher said.
All life as we know it relies on carbon and water. But researchers speculate this doesn’t have to be the case.
As the world gets hotter, men may have fewer and fewer viable sperm
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, […]
The climate change we’re witnessing is more dramatic than we might think.
The history of life on Earth took many meandering turns before it gave rise to us. When Earth first formed, all the raw ingredients for life — atoms, molecules, a potentially habitable planet […]
Climate change stands to take the one thing away from us that might make it easier to deal with, cheap beer.