Stories from Laura Helmuth
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A new study spotlights the plight of the polar bear, but there’s still time to help the beloved creature
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Paleobiologist Aaron O’Dea has made his name by sweating the small stuff
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A new book of photographs taken in the ocean depths reveals a world abounding in unimagined life
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Meet Cristián Samper, Acting Secretary
On the surprise evidence of flowing water on Mars
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A trip to Mount Erebus yields a rare, close-up look at one of the world’s weirdest geological marvels
Neil Shubin, Paleontologist, University of Chicago
The “missing link?” At least a step in a new direction
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A veteran photographer shows the extraordinary knack that some animals have for…disappearing
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A unique study documents the disappearance of Alaska’s glaciers, blamed on global warming
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Saving Mali’s Migratory Elephants
A new photo library of West Africa’s desert elephants is helping researchers track the dwindling herd and protect their imperiled migration routes.
A woodpecker feared extinct reappears in Arkansas
Microscope jockeys from around the world enter their masterpieces in an annual art show
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The orbiting space telescope has captured star births and deaths, galactic collisions and the accelerating expansion of the universe
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