ecology
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The Earth is a blue marble (and the world is green)
You may have heard the Earth called the blue marble, but do you know why the…
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Finding wildfire’s niche in the Anthropocene
Are humans starting a new fiery relationship with nature in wetter climates?
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Chasing Fire: One Scientist’s Mission to Photograph Her Study Organism
While many scientists handle their study organisms daily, wildfires can remain elusive.
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Tails from the Field: Studying Lemurs in Southwestern Madagascar
In one of the most ecologically unique regions in the world, I had the chance to…
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How a cattle vaccine helped save giraffes
Find out how a vaccine for cattle resulted in a rebound in giraffe populations on the…
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Life on the Edge: 3 Important Ways that Habitat Edges Affect Forests
Edges exist in nature, but what happens when humans continue to fragment habitat?
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Live Fast, Die Young: Why Some Animals Die After Mating
Some have termed it “suicidal mating,” when adult animals die shortly after mating for the first…
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From the Field to the Lab: Sequencing Wild Microbiomes
From sample collection to sequencing, find out how researchers study the communities of tiny organisms living…
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Pleistocene Rewilding: A Controversial Idea in Conservation Biology
Some conservationists dream of returning to an ancient past of free roaming elephants and lions in…