Is there room in the Terai Arc for people and wildlife? One win-win solution helped villagers replace forest-foraging cattle with a breed that produces more milk and is kept close to home.

Building An Arc

Despite poachers, insurgents and political upheaval, India and Nepal’s bold approach to saving wildlife in the Terai Arc just may succeed

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Wild in the Yukon

A Danish photographer goes the extra mile to document wildlife in one of North America’s most remote areas, now coveted by mining and oil companies

The View From the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the Cosmos

Finding a Home in the Cosmos

In a new book written with his wife, Nancy Abrams, cosmologist Joel Primack argues that the universe was meant for us. Sort of

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Interview with John Seidensticker and Susan Lumpkin

The authors of “Building an Arc” talk about wildlife conservation and what drew them to work with tigers.

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The Strawberry with “Wicked Wiles”

David Chelf, a former physicist who shifted gears into horticulture, launched a venture in 2003 to grow large quantities of Mara des Bois strawberries

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Al Gore Discusses “An Inconvenient Truth”

Environmentalist Al Gore talks about his new movie

The product of a ten-year Sino-American conservation effort, the cub may help scientists reestablish the endangered giant pandas in the wild, where about 1,600 are believed to exist.

Learning from Tai Shan

The giant panda born at Washington, D.C.’s National Zoo has charmed animal lovers. Now he’s teaching scientists more than they had expected

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Neil Shubin, Paleontologist, University of Chicago

The “missing link?” At least a step in a new direction

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Wild Things: Life As We Know It

From chimpanzee communication to paper wasps and humans fleeing Vesuvius

Although owners prized their EV1s, the manufacturer did not relent.

The Death of the EV-1

Fans of a battery-powered emissions free sedan mourn its passing

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The Sound of Hoofs

In a breathtaking spectacle, wildebeest by the millions are on the move this month in the Serengeti

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Q&A with Laura Tangley

An interview with Laura Tangley, author of “Learning from Tai Shan” in the June 2006 issue of SMITHSONIAN.

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard

A Nobel laureate holds forth on flies, genes and women in science

A tiny blob of stretchy brown matter, soft tissue from inside the leg bone, suggests the specimen had not completely decomposed.

Dinosaur Shocker

Probing a 68-million-year-old T. rex, Mary Schweitzer stumbled upon astonishing signs of life that may radically change our view of the ancient beasts

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Wild Things: Life as We Know It

Rediscovery of a Laotian rodent, orangutan culture and crossing the Bering Strait

Fred and Ginger quickly and precisely configure the optical fibers beneath them.

Fred and Ginger

Two robots, neither as graceful as its namesake, but no less accomplished, are among advances keeping scientists on the cutting edge

A verreaux's sifaka lemur can jump 30 feet

For the Love of Lemurs

To her delight, social worker-turned-scientist Patricia Wright has found the mischievous Madagascar primates to be astonishingly complex

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God Save the… Ravens

Coyotes in densely populated areas (a Los Angeles suburb) can be alarming. But wildlife experts say they fill a niche in the urban ecology.

City Slinkers

Why are coyotes, those cunning denizens of the plains and rural west, moving into urban centers like Chicago and Washington DC?

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