Ecology

The technology could help beekeepers reduce short-term losses, but it doesn’t address long-term problems facing honeybees

Without the Montreal Protocol, more solar radiation would have destroyed plants, lessening the CO₂ they absorb

Here’s how researchers are zeroing in on the culprit

In Science Book Talk, a new four-part podcast miniseries, host Deboki Chakravarti acts as literary guide to two science books that share a beautiful and sometimes deeply resonant entanglement.

In this week’s show: Entangled Life, by Merlin Sheldrake, and Gathering Moss, by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

The legislation provides billions of dollars for thinning forests in ways that some scientists think are wrongheaded

A pilot program reveals that deforestation declined when Peruvian Indigenous communities use an early-alert-system app to detect forest loss

Here is our next installment of a new pop-up podcast miniseries that takes your ears into the deep sound of nature. Host Jacob Job, an ecologist and audiophile, brings you inches away from a multitude of creatures, great and small, amid the sonic grandeur of nature. You may not be easily able to access these places amid the pandemic, but after you take this acoustic journey, you will be longing to get back outside.

Strap on some headphones, find a quiet place and prepare to experience an evanescent like no other: the blue oak woodlands in Sequoia National Park in California.

Catch additional episodes in the series here. 

In a contaminated Seattle river, what the mammals leave behind may be a good gauge of cleanup efforts

Humans are profoundly altering the earth. Is our impact enough to matter across geologic time? Some say it is. Welcome to the Anthropocene

Introduced from Canada in 1946, the rodents have exponentially reproduced and are expanding throughout the Southern Cone

Brain scans reveal damage that leads to neurological and behavioral changes, including beach strandings

A brief portion of the December 9 conversation during the climate talks in France between Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz and Scientific American’s David Biello