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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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 JOHN FLESHER  TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - It hardly seems fair, but water creatures nimble enough to avoid being gobbled up by predators might harm their species more than help, new research suggests.
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The Web is scarier than most people realize, according to research published recently by Google.
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By LOUISE GRAY  IT WAS such a beautiful morning that Jake Moorcock thought he would check his apple trees for signs of an early spring. The trouble was - they had gone.
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By LOVELL-SMITH Mary  The Bugman, Ruud Kleinpaste, can put on a good show, but he has a serious message about biodiversity and the survival of the human race, writes MARY LOVELL-SMITH.   Imagine bandages of daddy-longlegs' webs or antibiotics made from the glands of a bull ant.
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WASHINGTON - Insects that emerge every 17 years in the eastern United States provide valuable nutrients to forest ecosystems when they die, an ecologist says.
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By Tom Venesky, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader Sep. 25--The presence of a diminutive insect in the state has forestry officials on high alert.
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By B.C. Manion, Tampa Tribune, Fla.  Jun. 2--LITHIA -- Lynn Barber's favorite hobby, gardening, sounds placid enough, but it's fraught with danger.   Once, while transplanting a citrus tree, she was swarmed by fire ants.
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Your own patch of greenery may be your haven, but what you put in it could be harmful to the environment
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By Ed Fletcher, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Mar. 3--The event wasn't very eventful: watching two hard-hat-wearing, chainsaw-wielding men cutting the tree until the large cottonwood began to creak, then lean, and then with "thud ... crackle, crackle," it was down.
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Free Web game is designed to help kids learn better how to beat the disease.
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Web services that plumb for consumer views, helpful and hurtful.
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It would be a lot easier to enjoy your life if there weren't so many things trying to kill you every day. Shadowed by peril as we are, you would think we'd get pretty good at distinguishing the risks likeliest to do us in from the ones that are statistical long shots. But you would be wrong, and it's almost certainly something we can learn to do better.
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Jon-Paul Bingham puts his life on the line every week for the sake of science. One wrong move, and he could become the hapless victim of a snail attack that could kill him.
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An azure lake glimmered while ancient pines loomed nearby. My parents and I admired nature's simple beauty, but does everybody look up from their technological wonders to view the natural ones?  Nature gives us everything from oxygen to the material items we enjoy.
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The infestation of tree-killing bugs sweeping through millions of acres of forests in the West might help prevent wildfires rather than fuel them as feared, according to a new study.