nature

How surfboards connect us to nature

Licking bees and pulping trees: The reign of a wasp queen

What crows teach us about death

The philosophy of cynicism

How you can help save the monarch butterfly -- and the planet

Indigenous knowledge meets science to take on climate change

Are we interrupting the kinky sex lives of fish?

The problem of light pollution -- and 5 ridiculously easy ways to fix it

What a nun can teach a scientist about ecology

How a handful of fishing villages sparked a marine conservation revolution

The power of invisibility

An urgent call to protect the world's "Third Pole"

The dangers of a noisy ocean -- and how we can quiet it down

Urban architecture inspired by mountains, clouds and volcanoes

A brief tour of the last 4 billion years (dinosaurs not included)

The secret language of trees

How one tree grows 40 different kinds of fruit

This ancient rock is changing our theory on the origin of life

How supercharged plants could slow climate change

A love story for the coral reef crisis

The fascinating (and dangerous) places scientists aren't exploring

A new way to "grow" islands and coastlines

The mysterious microbes living deep inside the earth -- and how they could help humanity

How climate change could make our food less nutritious

The amazing brains and morphing skin of octopuses and other cephalopods

5 challenges we could solve by designing new proteins

An ingenious proposal for scaling up marine protection

What's at the bottom of the ocean -- and how we're getting there

Inside the black hole image that made history

The wild world of carnivorous plants

Why are earthquakes so hard to predict?

How tall can a tree grow?

Where did the Moon come from? A new theory

The sexual deception of orchids

How do ocean currents work?

Can animals be deceptive?