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5,516 results for: Forests

  1. Earth

    Trees have a tipping point

    Satellite data confirm that the amount of forest cover can shift suddenly in response to relatively small changes in fire frequency and rainfall.

    By Alexandra Witze
  2. Life

    Industrial roar changes nearby plant reproduction

    Trees and wildflowers register the effects as animals flee (or not) from grinding engines.

    By Susan Milius
  3. Life

    How the elephant gets its infrasound

    Just blowing air through a pachyderm’s larynx produces fundamental elements of the mysterious rumblings that send messages too low for people to hear.

    By Susan Milius
  4. Tech

    Ignition Failed

    How America’s latest attempt at fusion power fizzled.

    By Andrew Grant
  5. Humans

    Rural life may boost allergy resistance

    Country kids had a greater diversity of bacteria associated with increased levels of the anti-inflammatory molecule IL-10.

    By Devin Powell
  6. Animals

    A Different Kind of Smart

    Animals’ cognitive shortcomings are as revealing as their genius.

    By Susan Milius

  7. BOOK REVIEW: Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America’s Great Forests (David Suzuki Foundation Series) by Andrew Nikiforuk

    Review by Sid Perkins.

    By Science News
  8. Climate

    Soil’s Hidden Secrets

    Shocking discoveries from the underground may shake up climate science.

    By Charles Petit

  9. Book Review: Relics: Travels in Nature’s Time Machine by Piotr Naskrecki

    Review by Allison Bohac.

    By Science News
  10. Life

    Making mouse memories

    Neuroscientists create a synthetic recollection of fear in rodents.

    By Laura Sanders
  11. Earth

    Bugged forests bad for climate

    Trees savaged by pine beetles are slow to recover their ecological function as greenhouse gas sponges.

    By Janet Raloff
  12. Humans

    DNA unveils enigmatic Denisovans

    Technical advances amplify the genetic record of a Stone Age humanlike population, ancestors of modern Melanesians.

    By Bruce Bower