Mar 25 2011
Joshua Trees Nearly Wiped Out by 2100?
This icon of the Mojave desert could be yet another victim of climate change.
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Mar 25 2011
Race Is on to Study Rare Costa Rican Bird
The Yellow-billed Continga is among many species in danger of vanishing before anyone learns fundamental facts about them.
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Mar 03 2011
World’s Sixth Mass Extinction May Be Underway
Species have been wiped out by human caused habitat loss, over-hunting, over-fishing and the spread of germs.
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Mar 03 2011
Deadly Fungus Turns Ants Into Zombies
A new type of parasitic fungus takes control of ants by burrowing in their brains.
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Feb 28 2011
Fossil DNA Could Save Species
Ancient DNA may hold the key to saving endangered species such as the Tasmanian devil.
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Feb 14 2011
Birds Loving Honeysuckle Invaders
Your friendly neighborhood honeysuckle is probably an invasive species -- and that's OK.
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Feb 11 2011
What’s Living Where on the Seafloor?
Ocean modelers are tracking the denizens of the deep from the deluge of data collected during the Census of Marine Life.
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Feb 07 2011
Melting Snowpack Puts Wolverines at Risk
Cutting carbon emissions soon could help save mountain snowpack, and so wolverines, in the northwest United States.
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Feb 02 2011
Palm Plantations Pummel Peat Swamp Forests
Trying to find economic stability, Borneo is losing a goldmine of endemic species.
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Jan 26 2011
Cuban Frogs Hitched Rides to Florida
Two species of invasive frogs may have gotten to the United States by floating on debris.
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