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5,504 results for: Forests

  1. Banning deer boosts migratory birds

    In a 9-year test, excluding deer raised the population numbers among bird species, such as hooded warblers, that have a high conservation priority.

    By Susan Milius
  2. Humans

    When Biologists Get Bombed

    Or shot at by soldiers. This isn't textbook conservation science.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Earth

    Infrasonic Symphony

    Scientists are eavesdropping on volcanoes, avalanches, earthquakes, and meteorites to discern these phenomena's infrasound signatures and see what new information infrasound might reveal.

    By Kate Ramsayer
  4. Ecosystems

    Why didn’t the beetle cross the road?

    Beetle populations confined to specific forest areas by roads seem to have lost some of their genetic diversity.

    By Susan Milius
  5. Archaeology

    Maya palace suddenly expands

    Archaeologists find a sprawling palace and other surprises at a 1,300-year-old Maya site in Guatemala.

    By Bruce Bower
  6. Earth

    Not So Green? Using hydrogen as fuel may hurt environment

    Replacing fossil fuels with clean-burning hydrogen—considered to be a way to reduce globe-warming carbon dioxide—may create a different set of environmental problems, including larger and longer-lasting ozone holes.

    By Sid Perkins

  7. Probing Ocean Depths: Photosynthetic bacteria bare their DNA

    Scientists have deciphered the DNA of two highly abundant, photosynthetic ocean bacteria.

    By John Travis
  8. Tech

    Body Builders

    By growing stem cells on three- dimensional polymer scaffolds, tissue engineers hope to mimic natural tissue development and ultimately produce replacement body parts.

    By Alexandra Goho
  9. Plants

    Any Hope for Old Chestnuts?

    Next year will mark the 100th anniversary of the discovery of chestnut blight in the United States, but enthusiasts still haven't given up hope of restoring American chestnut forests.

    By Susan Milius
  10. Ecosystems

    Shark Serengeti: Ocean predators have diversity hot spots

    The first search for oceanic spots of exceptional diversity in predators has turned up marine versions of the teeming Serengeti plains.

    By Susan Milius
  11. Earth

    Prescribed fire burns out of control

    A fire set by the National Park Service to clear underbrush burned out of control, consuming more than 44,000 acres around Los Alamos, N.M.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  12. Ecosystems

    Lab ecosystems show signs of evolving

    An ambitious test of group selection considers whether natural selection can act on whole ecosystems as evolutionary units.

    By Susan Milius