Q&A: The flu catcher
Q&A: Richard Webby studies the ecology of influenza, trying to better understand how certain strains of influenza can leap across the species divide from animals to people.
Nature Outlook
December 8, 2011
Stormwater Strategies
Cover story: Cities Prepare Aging Infrastructure for Climate Change
Environmental Health Perspectives
December 2011
Picky Eaters
Feature: Clinical trials are testing how careful exposure could protect people with potentially lethal allergies to everyday fare.
Nature Outlook
November 24, 2011
Dryer Vents: An Overlooked Source of Pollution?
News story: New research shows that home dryer vents emit a suite of volatile organic compounds, and hints that scented laundry products may be the source
Environmental Health Perspectives
November, 2011
Offshore Wind
News story: Nation’s Smallest State Thinks Big When it Comes to Offshore Wind Farms
ClimateCentral.org
October 19, 2011
Positive ID
News story: Pigeons, like crows, can recognize individual humans
Natural History
October 2011
When Evolution Slept
Q&A: For a billion years life stalled, held back by a harsh, suffocating environment. Andrew Knoll explains the dramatic circumstances that jump-started evolution and cleared the way for life as we know it.
Discover
Summer 2011 Special Issue
Man-Eating Lions Attack by the Dark of the Moon
News story: Study explains why attacks spike at certain times of month
ScienceNOW
July 20, 2011
Cheating on the Beachmaster
News story: Female elephant seals often avoid the harem and mate on the sly
ScienceNOW
July 18, 2011
Communities Blow Back at Wind Farm Development
Feature: A proposed wind farm has divided residents of the small town of Cape Vincent, N.Y., demonstrating the challenges involved in expanding this renewable energy source.
ClimateCentral.org
July 18, 2011
Diver Snaps First Photo of Fish Using Tools
News story: The blackspot tuskfish cracks open shells with a rock
ScienceNOW
July 8, 2011
Long-Dead Cane Toads Continue to Haunt Australian Wildlife
News story: Road kill "toad jerky" is highly toxic, even after months in the sun
ScienceNOW
July 1, 2011
Tiny Marine Crustaceans Construct Wax 'Weight Belts' to Stay Deep
News story: Strategy is similar to that used by sperm whales
ScienceNOW
June 24, 2011
The Most Extreme Migration on Earth?
News story: Geese soar over Himalayas unaided by tailwinds
ScienceNOW
June 7, 2011
A Hard Nut to Crack
News story: The grassy diet of an ancient hominid erroneously dubbed "Nutcracker Man"
Natural History
June 2011
Diet for a long life?
Review: A new film, Forks Over Knives, promotes a plant-based diet
Culinate.com
May 31, 2011
Scrappy Squid
News story: A single pheromone gets otherwise calm male squid brawling
Natural History
May 2011
Humans Not Solely to Blame for Sea Turtle Declines
News story: Study finds that natural ocean cycles may be hurting loggerheads
ScienceNOW
April 28, 2011
Biggest Ever Assemblage of Whales Isn't Necessarily Good News
News story: Unexpected feast in Antarctic waters may be a sign of rapid climate change
ScienceNOW
April 27, 2011
Gulf Spill Photos: 9 Animal Victims—Plus 2 Survivors
News slideshow: From the pancake batfish to the manatee, see what what's happening to animals in the Gulf a year later
National Geographic News
April 19, 2011
Ocean Noise Could Harm Squid and Their Ilk
News story: Study reports that cuttlefish, squids, and octopuses suffer "massive acoustic trauma" from loud sounds
ScienceNOW
April 11, 2011
Killer Whales Devise Lethal Splash to Catch Seals
News slideshow: A highly coordinated hunting tactic almost always works
ScienceNOW
April 4, 2011
Animals Find Sanctuary With Scientists
News story: Long-term research sites offer them a safe haven from poachers
ScienceNOW
March 29, 2011
Damping Down Fear With Cortisol
News story: The stress hormone enhances therapy to treat a phobia of heights
ScienceNOW
March 28, 2011
Could Amateur Taxonomists Catalog Earth's Fauna?
News story: A call for citizen scientists to help fill the gap in funding and support for professional taxonomists
ScienceInsider
March 14, 2011
Crustaceans Crave a Little Quiet
News story: Noisy reefs may lure some marine invertebrates, but they repel many others
ScienceNOW
March 7, 2011
How Much Would It Cost to Identify Every Animal on Earth?
News story: Brazilian scientists tally up the tab
ScienceNOW
March 4, 2011
Engineered Nanoparticles in Consumer Products
Cover story: Understanding a new ingredient
Environmental Health Perspectives
March, 2011
Food Flicks
Review: These three food-centric documentaries — Lunch Line, Ciclovida:Lifecycle, and Dive! — may not have made it to the Oscars, but they’re worth seeking out.
Culinate.com
February 25, 2011
Thousands of Tombs in Saudi Desert Spotted From Space
News story: Google Earth gives archaeologists a new view of the ruins
LiveScience.com
February 15, 2011
Horsewhipping Study Whips Up Controversy
News story: Do they really make racehorses run faster?
LiveScience.com
February 9, 2011
Exclusive: Tanzania Park 'Highway' to Remain Undeveloped
News story: Contrary to reports, government says it never planned to pave inside Serengeti National Park
ScienceInsider
February 4, 2011
Rescue in the Arctic
News story: Historic treaty to coordinate operations
OurAmazingPlanet.com
February 2, 2011
Fox Lunch
News story: Endangered kit foxes have a taste for junk food
Natural History
February 2011
Hugs Follow a 3-Second Rule
News story: Timing Olympic athletes’ embraces sheds light on how we perceive the present
ScienceNOW
January 28, 2011
Musseled-Out Native Species Return to the Hudson
News story: Fortunes have changed for invasive zebra mussels, but the reasons remain mysterious
ScienceNOW
January 21, 2011
Siberians Raided Rodent Caches for Food
News story: Plundering people sometimes left gifts of needles or cloth
National Geographic News
January 18, 2011
Examining Nanotech’s Clean Energy Promises
News story: A new report cries "greenwash"
Environmental Health Perspectives
January 2011
Sound Footprint
News story: Music purchased online tops the charts for carbon savings
Conservation
January–March 2011
Sea Turtle Herpes Tumors Linked to Sewage?
News story: Pollution causes seaweed boom that triggers herpes virus, study finds
National Geographic News
November 9, 2010
Insect Scourge: Two New Species Invade U.S. Every Year
News story: Scientists calculate the rate of invasion
LiveScience.com
November 5, 2010
The Skinny on Invasive Snakes: Florida May Be Just the Start
News Story: Florida's Burmese pythons are surprisingly tolerant of cold
LiveScience.com
October 22, 2010
Daisy's Sexy Spots Drive a Fly into Frenzy of Pollination
News story: Bee-flies duped into mating with flowers
LiveScience.com
October 6, 2010
Sailing Ancient Seas
News story: Did Pterosaurs sail, as well as fly?
Natural History
October 2010
Lead Poisoning in Samurai Kids Linked to Mom's Makeup
News story: Severe lead poisoning was rampant among the elite in Edo-period Japan
LiveScience.com
September 13, 2010
Pharmaceutical Factories as a Source of Drugs in Water
News story: Drug manufacturers can contribute substantially to waterborne pharmaceuticals
Environmental Health Perspectives
September 2010
Mercury Keeps Invasive Pythons Off the Menu
News story: South Florida’s Burmese pythons have sky-high mercury levels
LiveScience.com
August 31, 2010
Why It's OK for Birds to Be Gay
News story: The sex with the lightest parental duties is more likely to engage in homosexual behavior
LiveScience.com
August 23, 2010
Genetically Engineered Meat
Feature: An update on GE animals' progress to market as AquAdvantage® salmon approach FDA review
Culinate.com
July 21, 2010
Sea Sick
Feature: A gang of drug-resistant infections on the run from hospitals and landfills is cropping up in marine mammals, weaving a web of disease that extends deep into the ocean
Conservation
July–September 2010
Hot and Bothered
News story: Warmer waters make reef fish aggressive
Conservation
April–June 2010
Skin Cream for Ships
News story: Technology inspired by whale skin aims to keep ship hulls barnacle free
Conservation
January–March 2010
Served Rare
News story: The implications of farming threatened wildlife species
Conservation
January–March 2010
Last Legs
News story: Overharvest is devastating frog populations
Conservation
October–December 2009
Wrecking a Reef
News story: Shipwreck unleashes an invasion on a formerly pristine coral reef
Conservation
October–December 2009
Sweeteners Persist in Waterways
News story: Artificial sweeteners are rampant and persistent in lakes, streams, and groundwater
Environmental Health Perspectives
October 2009
A Drink or Drive Issue
News story: Biofuels have a heavy water footprint
Conservation
July–September, 2009
Cambodia’s Trail of Guns
News story: Khmer Rouge weapons fuel present-day wildlife trade
Conservation
July–September, 2009
Carbon Gets Stoned
News story: Injecting CO2 into subsurface rocks could provide permanent storage
Conservation
July–September, 2009
Back from the Wild
News story: Keiko chose the comforts of human care over freedom
Natural History
July/August 2009
Talon Hunt
Feature: Modern falconry and its effect on wild bird populations
Natural History
June 2009
Going Steady
News story: A coral and a brittlestar pair up for life
Natural History
June 2009
Red Light. Green Light.
News story: Preventing bird collisions may be as easy as switching bulbs
Conservation
April–June 2009
Reversal of Fortune
News story: Nitrogen pollution resurrects Nile River Delta fishery
Conservation
April–June 2009
Animal Party Line
News story: East African dik-diks listen in on bird alarm calls
Natural History
October 2008
Six Feet Under
News story: Why haven’t insects colonized the oceans?
Natural History
April 2008
On the Trail of a Snail
News story: Ancient Polynesians introduced a snail used in jewelry making from Tahiti to other islands
Natural History
December 2007/January 2008
No Joy in Mudville
News story: Prozac is depressing freshwater mussels
Natural History
December 2006/January 2007
They Came from the Deep
News story: Genes that let pathogenic bacteria thrive in the human gut evolved in deep-sea thermal vents
Natural History
October 2007
Would you like drugs with that?
News story: Antibiotics given to livestock may wind up in produce
Culinate.com
August 14, 2007
Humongous Fungus (No Longer Among Us)
News story: Giant mystery fossils turn out to be fungi
Natural History
July/August 2007
Trans Fat Transition
Feature: Trans fats are under siege in prepared foods, restaurants, even grocery stores
Culinate.com
March 26, 2007
Talking Turkey about Biofuels
News story: Progress and setbacks at a factory that turns turkey byproducts into oil
E Magazine
November/December 2005
Empowering Indigenous Peoples
News story: Program aims to help Central American indigenous people manage their land sustainably
Environmental Health Perspectives
September 2005
On Land and Sea, a True Marvel
News story: The Orukter Amphibolos was 1805's answer to the off-road vehicle
Philadelphia Inquirer
July 14, 2005
Aged 'Leaf Doctor' Serves Haiti's Poor
Review: Film profiles rural midwife
Haitian Times
December 8-14, 2004
Swinging Seniors Dance into People's Hall of Fame
News story: Former chorus girls keep the Jazz Age alive
Caribbean Life
November 23, 2004