In Lifeâs Web, Aiding Trees Can Kill Them
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When elephants were removed from a research site in Kenya, a mysterious decline in the colonies of good ants and a growth in the colonies of bad ants emerged.
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Using the internet to manage a chronic illness can leave you in worse health than before you logged on, a review of recent studies has found.
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By MICHAEL CASEY  CHEME, Thailand - For much of his life, Viroj Dedsongprak paid little attention to the mangrove forests that surrounded his Thai village. He thought nothing of it when neighbors chopped down trees for firewood or plowed them under for shrimp ponds.
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By Emily Steel The Wall Street Journal  From the beginning, the Internet has attracted people seeking to research their family trees -- and sites wanting to make money off their pursuits.
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The sudden boost trillions of cicadas dying en masse give to North American forest soils is apparent from a new study.
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A submersible robot can harvest timber from long-forgotten underwater forests. Clear-cutting never looked so green. By Michael Behar from Wired magazine.
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There's an old truth about hurricanes: they take out the trees that gardeners don't have the heart to cut down.
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Fearful that growing pressure for development could cause the loss of vital plants and animals, biologists and conservationists are trying to rally new interest in protecting tropical forests and the keys they may hold for vital medicines.
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By Christina M. Woods, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Feb.
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By Suzanne Perez Tobias, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Jun. 24--A few summers ago, Matthew Vines had a whole lot of time and not much to do, so he created a Web site.   This summer, that site is his ticket to a grand adventure.
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Helping Cool Earth 'keep carbon where it belongs' A new online initiative has come up with a cunningly simple plan to save the world's rainforests - offer them by the acre to concerned netizens whose "purchase" allows swathes of threatened land to be preserved for future generations.â¦
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The more time people spend surfing the web and watching TV, the less time they spend in nature. And that loss of contact eventually lessens their interest in protecting the natural environment, a new study claims.
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The devastation wrought by nature can be terrible. However, it can be made much worse by humans-by both our activity and inactivity.
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The fibers that make up blood clots are more elastic than rubber bands and stretchier than spider webs. They're even tougher than doctors suspected &#151; a discovery that could lead to improved treatment of heart attacks and strokes.
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Their decaying carcasses gave a super-size boost in nutrients to forest soil and stimulated seed and nitrogen production in a plant important to the forest ecosystem, researchers reported in Friday&#39;s issue of the journal Science.
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Scientists studying the broader effects of wolf reintroduction said a growing body of evidence suggests that killing off predators such as wolves and grizzly bears in the last century started a cascade of effects that threw ecosystems out of balance.
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NEW YORK  - If the job of raking the leaves  falls to you, experts advise approaching it like a sport: warm  up, cool down and watch your form.