Will Putting Honey Bees on Public Lands Threaten Native Bees?
Honey bees heavy with pollen and nectar foraged from wildflowers on Utah’s Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest collide with tall grass and tumble to the ground. They are attempting to land alongside…
Wenn sich die Ozeane warm, fallen Raubtiere außerhalb der Synchronisierung mit ihrer Beute
Seit Jahrzehnten an der US-amerikanischen Mid-Atlantic-Küste haben Freizeitangler den kalten Temperaturen Ende Oktober und November trotzen, um einer der berühmtesten Fischarten der Region, dem gestreiften Bass, zu verfolgen. In dieser…
In the Wake of Coup, Gold Mining Boom Is Ravaging Myanmar
In a village in Kachin State, Myanmar, bordering China’s Yunnan province, a day laborer named Naw had earned just enough in the sugarcane and cornfields to feed his family of…
Why a Big Mining Project Could Wipe Out Rural Villages in Indonesia
Deep in rain-swept forests on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, an environmental and human disaster is looming, at a zinc mine ready for digging in mountains considered the most seismically…
How African Communities Are Taking Lead on Protecting Wildlife
It’s time to salute the herder conservationists of Africa. Once, the term would have seemed an oxymoron. The people shepherding livestock across the continent’s great open grasslands have been widely…
How Non-Native Plants Are Contributing to a Global Insect Decline
For years, Doug Tallamy sounded the alarm about the grave threat that plants introduced from abroad pose to native insects. By transforming native plant communities into so-called novel landscapes increasingly…
As War Halts, the Environmental Devastation in Gaza Runs Deep
The natural environment took an unprecedented pounding during the war in Gaza. And as the territory’s inhabitants have returned home since the ceasefire, the extent of the environmental devastation is…
In Tanzania, Carbon Offsets Preserve Forests and a Way of Life
Deep in the Rift Valley of East Africa, close to some of the most ancient human remains ever unearthed, one of the continent’s last hunter-gatherer tribes is embracing 21st -century…
Schützen der Erde: Wenn ‘die Natur halb’ braucht ‘, was brauchen die Menschen dann?
MEINUNG Die Kampagne zur Erhaltung der Hälfte der Erdoberfläche wird dafür kritisiert, dass sie die globale Ungleichheit und die menschlichen Bedürfnisse nicht berücksichtigt. Ein solcher Schutz ist jedoch nicht nur…
Why Saving World’s Peatlands Can Help Stabilize the Climate
The Aweme borer is a yellowish-brown moth with an inch-and-a half wingspan. In the often-colorful world of lepidopterology — the study of moths and butterflies — it’s not particularly flashy,…