Ancient indigenous New Mexican community knew how to sustainably coexist with wildfire
Credit: Christopher Roos Wildfires are the enemy when they threaten homes in California and elsewhere....
French Polynesia, discover dream beaches
French Polynesia (/ˈfrɛntʃ pɒlɪˈniːʒə/ (About this soundlisten); French: Polynésie française [pɔlinezi fʁɑ̃sɛz]; Tahitian: Pōrīnetia Farāni),...
Global Forest Watch Tracks Deforestation in Real Time – And Helps Fight It Too
Global Forest Watch’s satellite-based maps provide users with access to data on forests worldwide –...
Jaguars robust to climate extremes but lack of food threatens species
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new QUT-led study has found wild jaguars in the Amazon...
What makes the world’s biggest surfable waves?
On Feb. 11, 2020, Brazilian Maya Gabeira surfed a wave off the coast of Nazaré,...
Study of river otters near oilsands operations shows reduced baculum strength
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Canada has...
Chemical memory in plants affects chances of offspring survival
Caption: Thale Cress grown without inherited memories (left) and grown with the memories (right) Credit:...
New research reveals ‘megatrends’ that will affect forests in the next decade
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A group of experts from academic, governmental and international organizations have...
Returning the ‘three sisters’ – corn, beans and squash – to Native American farms nourishes people, land and cultures
Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving, when Wampanoag peoples...
On a cool night in Malaysia, scientists track mysterious colugos across the treetops
My companions scanned the treetops with binoculars and a thermal-imaging monocular. I stared at the...