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Diary of a Nature Nerd: New Graphic Novel Celebrates Kids’ Love of Wildlife

Cartoonist Tiffany Everett’s new book encourages readers to explore new places, keep journals about what they encounter, and think like scientists.
October 9, 2025
by
John R. Platt
Cartoonist Tiffany Everett’s new book encourages readers to explore new places, keep journals about what they encounter, and think like scientists.
Wildlife

Incredible Journeys: Migratory Sharks on the Move

Even as scientists rush to identify the migratory paths of some endangered shark species to help better protect them, climate change and other threats shift this behavior, adding urgency to the research.
September 29, 2025
by
Melissa Gaskill
Even as scientists rush to identify the migratory paths of some endangered shark species to help better protect them, climate change and other threats shift this behavior, adding urgency to the research.
Environmental Books

Inspired by Nature: 10 Powerful New Memoirs and Biographies

These new books showcase moments where embracing nature led to personal discoveries or scientific breakthroughs.
September 25, 2025
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Colleen M. Crary, Ph.D.
These new books showcase moments where embracing nature led to personal discoveries or scientific breakthroughs.
Wildlife

Holy Herbaria: Protecting Plant History — or About to Become History?

Plant repositories provide crucial links between plants, botanists, and the rest of us. But their already-shrinking budgets face new threats from the Trump administration.
September 8, 2025
by
Karen Mockler
Plant repositories provide crucial links between plants, botanists, and the rest of us. But their already-shrinking budgets face new threats from the Trump administration.
The Ask

Saving Okefenokee

A potential titanium mine threatened the famous swamp — until activists and local journalists stepped in.
September 4, 2025
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John R. Platt
A potential titanium mine threatened the famous swamp — until activists and local journalists stepped in.
Wildlife

What Does It Take to Write a Global Conservation Report? A New Assessment of Sharks Offers Answers

A two-year effort by hundreds of science and conservation experts from 158 countries reveals the latest shark conservation statistics, while providing insight into the process to protect large groups of species.
August 4, 2025
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Dr. David Shiffman
A two-year effort by hundreds of science and conservation experts from 158 countries reveals the latest shark conservation statistics, while providing insight into the process to protect large groups of species.
Voices

Biomimicry Needs to Keep Evolving

The emerging science of social biomimicry still places too much value on human constructs. There are ways around that.
August 1, 2025
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Nolan Monaghan
The emerging science of social biomimicry still places too much value on human constructs. There are ways around that.
Voices

Footprints and Fences: In Search of Hedgehogs

This is how hedgehogs coexist with us in the urban environment. Their time is when most of us are sleeping; their place is in the gaps and disregarded spaces of our busy city lives.
July 17, 2025
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David Overend
This is how hedgehogs coexist with us in the urban environment. Their time is when most of us are sleeping; their place is in the gaps and disregarded spaces of our busy city lives.
Climate Change

How to Get AI Out of Your Google Search Results

Three simple keystrokes will deliver search results that consume less energy and water — and probably contain better information.
July 14, 2025
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John R. Platt
Three simple keystrokes will deliver search results that consume less energy and water — and probably contain better information.
Wildlife

The Politicians Who Cried Wolf

Wolf conservation in the European Union has become a political issue instead of a scientific and environmental one, leading to ineffective policymaking.
June 23, 2025
by
Tim Brinkhof
Wolf conservation in the European Union has become a political issue instead of a scientific and environmental one, leading to ineffective policymaking.

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