Researchers test animal smarts to find what makes some better suited to urban living
A new study suggests that city life favors quieter, cleverer raccoons—and that means culling the aggressive ones could be a poor strategy.
Sep 2022 28
Warren Cornwall
Warren Cornwall is a freelance journalist based in Bellingham, Washington His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Boston Globe Magazine, and the Seattle Times. He is a contributing correspondent for Science.
Sep 2022 21
The more bees the merrier farmer
Crops benefit from a diversity of pollinating bees, and the benefits grow the longer scientists track them.
Sep 2022 14
Scientists can now train coral to spawn on demand
Climate change has ravaged coral reefs on a massive scale. This breakthrough could revolutionize efforts to rebuild them.
Aug 2022 31
A three-decade study shows how reviving bison herds revives prairies . . even better than cattle
In one of the last remnants of tallgrass prairie, scientists found that native species richness nearly doubled on land grazed by bison.
Aug 2022 24
The war on island invaders is more successful than you might think
Scientists examined more than a century of campaigns to eradicate invasive critters from islands. Most of the time, they were a success.
Aug 2022 10
A new force in animal evolution: Selfies of people feeding wildlife
Researchers found that people feeding wild deer might be creating evolutionary pressure toward more aggressive deer that beg for food.
Aug 2022 3
A rural health clinic saves a rainforest . . . and 45 other win-wins for nature and human health
Scientists searched for projects that simultaneously benefit nature and human health. They wound up with a Yelp-like rating system for 46 strategies.
Jul 2022 27
A surprising win-win: Intensive vanilla farming and biodiversity conservation
Vanilla farms help boost the number of species found on land previously cleared for agriculture in Madagascar, scientists find.
Jul 2022 20
More than half of rare species need intensive, hands-on help to ward off extinction
As world leaders discuss committing to protect 30% of the world's habitat, scientists warn that won't be enough for many endangered species.
Jul 2022 13
Those lights aren’t just messing with your sleep. They’re bothering the trees.
Like humans trees have circadian clocks. A new study finds urban light pollution changes those clocks, causing trees to leaf out earlier and change color later.
