Meet Katherine Johnson, the computer who helped send men to the moon
Read now →John Glenn wouldn't blast off until she double-checked the IBM's calculations
Meet Marjory Stoneman Douglas, champion and savior of the Everglades
Read now →Writer, suffragette, and fierce protector of the "worthless swamp"
Blue whales and orcas and more form an emotional bond with humans in "The Breath of a Whale"
Read now →Leigh Calvez blends Cetacean science with Cetacean narrative in her latest book
How to be a better tourist? Look to the Galápagos
Read now →Tourism accounts for 8 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. We can do more to limit our footprint, carbon and cultural
There was so much more to Rachel Carson beyond 'Silent Spring'
Read now →The trained zoologist and a bureaucrat pushed for environmental safety her whole life
How weather radar can predict bird migration
Read now →New data helps predict peak bird movements, helping people change their behavior to save avian lives
Meet Mary Golda Ross, one of the first Native Americans in engineering
Read now →Much of her Cold War work on missiles is still classified today
My life in butterflies: how a childhood hobby shaped my career
Read now →Citizen scientists make tangible contributions to data collection
How an interloper snake decimated Guam's delicious wild chilies
Read now →The snakes don't eat chilies. The connection: birds
How fieldwork on a remote, tiny island taught me to navigate family dinners
Read now →Doing science far away helped this ecologist talk to those close to home
Boobies of the Galápagos are replacing their disappearing food source with junk fish
Read now →Decades of research show how the sardine's decline threatens an entire ecosystem
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Thinking about releasing thousands of balloons for your local Indy 500? That's littering
Read now →The balloons are supposed to be biodegradable but they're really not
Albatrosses can spy on illegal fishing in international waters
Read now →But could satellite-tagging further endanger these seabirds?
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Warming oceans cast a chill over New England's sea turtles
Read now →Recent research suggests warming seas will cause more stranded sea turtles
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Short, glassy buildings are a bird’s worst nightmare
Read now →Windows are a gauntlet of mirrors and invisible walls
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These unregulated, potentially dangerous chemicals are probably already in your bloodstream
Read now →Researchers have known that there are unsafe compounds in our water for decades, but the government is just starting to catch up
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Tracking the history – and future – of the world's largest penguin breeding colony
Read now →Climate change is upending migration patterns that predate Cleopatra
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Tree-murdering fungi and insects increasingly contribute to climate change
Read now →New research suggests carbon dioxide released from dying forests equals emissions from 11 million cars
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Why don't Venus flytraps eat their pollinators?
Read now →The carnivorous plants are disappearing, so scientists need to understand their symbiosis with insects
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Can Hawaii's waterfall-climbing fish survive when mountain rains change?
Read now →O'opu make extreme treks to breed that depend on stable climate conditions
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Life is evolving through a hurricane of human pollution
Read now →Animals are adapting to pollutants in surprising and often costly ways
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