Patricia Zaradic, Conservation Ecologist, Pennsylvania
The trouble with “videophilia”
How the world’s 6.6 billion people threaten the health of the ecosystem
Amazon research that has withstood thieves and arsonists now faces its greatest challenge
What mangroves give the world and why we can’t afford to lose them
Forty years after the passage of the Clean Air Act, researchers have seen great progress while studying the dangers of pollution
Bugs in trees and kids in labs get their due in a new book by “Canopy Meg”
The nation’s storied wetland is the focus of the world’s largest environmental restoration project. But will that be enough?
35 Who Made a Difference: Jane Mt. Pleasant
Iroquois tradition plus Western science equals a more sustainable future
The air in many national wilderness wonderlands is getting worse. As officials debate new rules to curb pollution, scientists find sources are far-flung
The eruption of Mount St. Helens 25 years ago this month was no surprise. But the speedy return of wildlife to the area is astonishing
Pennekamp State Park—the nation’s first coral-reef santcuary—protects a thriving ecosystem beneath the waves
The voracious “Frankenfish” has turned up in the Potomac River, Lake Michigan and a California lake, sparking fears of an ecological Armageddon
John James Audubon: America’s Rare Bird
The foreign-born frontiersman became one of the 19th century’s greatest wildlife artists and a hero of the ecology movement
Smithsonian scientists’ study of the Chesapeake may benefit a wider world
A California biologist discovered a new insect species and then caught evolution in the act
Before “ecology” became a buzzword, John Steinbeck preached that man is related to the whole thing
They’re not animals and they’re not plants, and biologists want to know a lot more about them.
Holes in the canopy mean opportunity for new trees, but only if they are already waiting in the wings
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