Volume 9, Number 1
Features
URBAN MYTHS
When most of us think about environmentally friendly places, we imagine a terrain untouched by concrete. Cities seem like ecological nightmares. But perhaps the conventional wisdom is exactly backward.
by Jonah Lehrer
ECOSYSTEMS UNRAVELING
Pull predators out of the mix, and a once lush green world turns into an ecological shop of horrors.
by William Stolzenburg
CANCER ON A WHOLE SPECIES Cover Story
The gruesome disease ravaging Tasmanian devils is unlike anything we’ve seen before.
by Cynthia Mills
Innovations
COLLECT CALLS
Cell phones eavesdrop on birds
by John Weier
CIRCUITOUS ROUTES
Circuit theory guides wildlife corridor design
by Eric Wagner
RU SHOPPING 4 FISH?
Text message service ranks seafood for sustainability
by Justin Matlick
EYE OINTMENT FOR FROGS
Scientists stumble across a wonder drug for amphibians
by Eric Wagner
CONNECT THE DOTS
Intelligence software tracks down wildlife smugglers
by Emma Marris
Numbers In Context
TILL DEATH US DO PART
The environmental impacts of divorce
Essay
LIBERTÉ, EGALITÉ, FRATERNITÉ Print Only
by William Jordan
Journal Watch
Climate change, war, and famine
Polar bear mating troubles
New proof that forests mitigate floods
New greener source of ethanol
Boreal forests shifting from carbon sink to source
Rising temperatures push birds into higher and higher habitats
A chink in the cane toad’s armor
Books
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet by Mark Lynas
From Readers
YOUR LETTERS AND COMMENTS Print Only
Think Again
An Agricultural Crime against Humanity
by George Monbiot