Category Archives: The Planet
Chile Announces Protections for Massive Swath of Ocean With Three New Marine Parks
Easter Island is home to at least 142 endemic species, including the Easter Island butterfly [...]
King of the Mud Dragons
Kinorhynchs (aka mud dragons) range in size from about 0.13 to one millimeter. Like other [...]
Inside the Colorado Vault That Keeps Your Favorite Foods From Going Extinct
Illustration by Hillary Bonhomme The New Food Economy is a non-profit newsroom using independent, deep, [...]
How to Calculate the Danger of a Toxic Chemical to the Public
Neil Hall/EPA The recent attempted poisoning of the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his [...]
How California’s Giant Sequoias Tell the Story of Americans’ Conflicted Relationship With Nature
/ A stand of giant sequoias at Sequoia National Park in California. Library of Congress [...]
Why Canada Wants You to Know You’re Eating Crickets
Thanks to its neutral taste, cricket flour hides well in oatmeal and baked goods. But [...]
How a Team of Submersible-Bound Scientists Redefined Reef Ecosystems
Curasub commissioner/owner Adriaan Schrier and lead DROP scientist Carole Baldwin aboard the custom-built submersible. Barry [...]
The Real Science Behind Your Favorite Nerd Culture at Awesome Con
Awesome Con provided an opportunity for science fiction and real-life science to play off of [...]
How a Legendary Storm Chaser Changed the Face of Tornado Science
The tornado that touched down near El Reno, Oklahoma plowed through the region. The violent [...]
Illuminating the Ocean’s Teeming Twilight Zone, Before It Disappears
Everyone knows about shallow coral reefs like this one, which Shepherd captured during a decompression [...]
Diver’s magical ‘date’ with octopus leads to the discovery of a ‘mysterious’ underwater shrine
The octopus wrapped its giant tentacles around her arm, carrying her along with it as [...]
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Earth’s Past Climates
Digging Into Earth’s Climate Past to Chart Our Future Watch on In Silent Spring, Rachel [...]
A Daring Journey Into the Big Unknown of America’s Largest National Park
Nizina Glacier became more accessible to paddlers around 2000, when melting ice formed a lake [...]
Britain’s Lake District Was Immortalized by Beatrix Potter, But Is Its Future in Peril?
The books of Beatrix Potter will endure as long as there are children. Masterpieces of [...]
What the Longest Known Whale Shark Migration Ever Tells Us About Conservation
Guzmán and his team were only able to pinpoint the whale shark’s whereabouts when it [...]