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WHY TREES WON’T SAVE US FROM CLIMATE CHANGE

July 22, 2016

  Why Trees Won’t Save Us From Climate Change A subalpine forest in Colorado. Forests in the southwestern U.S. are expected to be among the hardest hit by climate change, according …

A tale of loyalty and betrayal

July 22, 2016

A tale of loyalty and betrayal, starring figs and wasps Fig trees and fig wasps are partners in life, but sometimes the trees betray their closest allies By Deepa Padmanaban …

A Guide to Digitized Natural History Collections

July 22, 2016

A Guide to Digitized Natural History Collections By MICHAEL ROSTON  A female eastern hercules beetle, Dynastes tityus. Credit Matt Reinbold   Natural history museums around the world have been growing beyond …

Too Many Deer on the Road?

July 20, 2016

Too Many Deer on the Road? Let Cougars Return, Study Says By JAMES GORMAN JULY 18, 2016 Cougars can kill hundreds of deer over the course of their lives, leading …

Angry Tweets Won’t Help African Lions

July 16, 2016

Angry Tweets Won’t Help African Lions By RICHARD CONNIFF   Credit Angie Wang THE killing of Zimbabwe’s celebrated Cecil the Lion by a Minnesota dentist, on July 1 of last …

Climate change may soon diminish crop yields

July 16, 2016

Climate change may soon diminish crop yields Max Carol Science  CC BY-SA 2.0 Neil Palmer (CIAT)  Rising temperatures are posing a threat to global food security. Selective breeding of crops …

The Black-Footed Ferret’s Last Hope

July 16, 2016

Madison Kotack A Fleet of M&M-Shooting Drones Is the Black-Footed Ferret’s Last Hope   Scott Osler/The Denver Post/Getty Images It’s not often you find yourself rooting for the weaselly masked …