Conservation Crochet
The “Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef,” a unique exhibition and thought-provoking fusion of science, conservation, mathematics, and art, was recently on display in Washington, D.C.
Sick Leave
Tourists may have spread deadly virus to wild gorillas
A Room Full of Mini-rivers
Showing how biodiversity cleans up water pollution
Perennial Agriculture
New technologies are reinventing farming from the roots up
Battle of the Book
Is it “greener” to read an e-book or an old-fashioned paper book?
Fast Carbon Relief
Limestone scrubbers transform powerplant emissions into ocean antacid
Monarch Decline
Grim outlook for mass butterfly phenomenon
Greener Pastures
What goes on in the stomachs and under the hooves of cows might be the key to turning deserts back into grasslands—and even cooling the planet. By Judith D. Schwartz.
Of Ants and Men
By Tim Flannery
Parallels between the ants and ourselves are striking for the light they shed on the nature of everyday human experiences.Pop That Cork
Plastic stoppers threaten cork-oak habitat
That merlot with the plastic bottle-stopper may be threatening biodiversity, according to a study of bird life in the Mediterranean oak forests tha