Migration, Interrupted: Natureâs Rhythms at Risk
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In a new book, David Wilcove urges conservation of species and their ways, still so little understood.
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mous...
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The problem is that while the hours are the same, people's habits differ radically.
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Every summer, Caribbean islands welcome waves of tourists to their sunbaked shores. Calm seas and clear skies also bring boatloads of undocumented Haitian migrants who risk their lives on rickety vessels with little food or water in a desperate bid for better opportunities.
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By Myers, Mark  There is broad consensus by the marine science community that our world's coastal and ocean ecosystems are stressed and significantly impaired. Each year, about 1.5 million people move to coastal counties.
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Human activity has at least doubled the risk of heat waves like the one in 2003 that killed thousands in Europe, researchers conclude in a study being published today in the scientific journal Nature.
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While leaves tumble from trees this fall, another natural wonder is soaring overhead. Hawks in North and South America are taking to the air as part of a seasonal migration.
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Every so often, nature reminds humans why we once feared it. And once in a while, we remember in turn what makes us human. In the terrible wake of the tsunamis in Southeast Asia--so vast their counterparts
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A new book argues that nature is too complex and depends on too many processes that are poorly understood or little monitored to be modeled using computer programs.
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An exercise paradox: a walk wakes you up, but hard training will run you down.
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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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Studying the zebra fish spinal cord, grooming habits of the Barbary macaque and the regional impact of dams.
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By Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop  Development is not always a one-way process of environmental destruction.
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mouse,...
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By Story by RICK NATHANSON Illustration by CATHRYN CUNNINGHAM Of the Journal  At the beginning of the summer, people were facing tough choices about which plants they might be willing to let die during what seemed like a dry cycle with no end.
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Scholars from different disciplines are crossing lines to share ideas about reducing the threat of climate change.
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In the coming decades, the effects of global warming are likely to turn millions into refugees.