Latest Environment Stories
How do animals see the world?
Cuttlefish and their amazing technicolor dreamcoats
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Olivia Ferrari / Hakai Magazine
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An equation co-written with AI reveals monster rogue waves form ‘all the time’
Scientists are confounded by the sex lives of serontine bats
Stop feeding the dolphins—seriously
Why dogs usually can’t tell what you’re pointing at
How ingredients in everyday soap could help fight malaria
The best air purifiers for allergies in 2023
Wild bonobos show surprising signs of cooperations between groups
How wind turbines could coexist peacefully with bats and birds
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Katarina Zimmer / Knowable Magazine
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Surprise! These sea cucumbers glow
Piping plovers are in trouble, but there’s some good news
Google DeepMind’s AI forecasting is outperforming the ‘gold standard’ model
Elusive egg-laying mammal caught on camera for the first time
These newfound beetles have male genitals shaped like a bottle opener
It’s time to start counting spiders
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Betsy Mason / Knowable Magazine
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Hummingbirds have two creative strategies for flying through tight spaces
Century-old buffalofish are still living in their prime
How gas stove companies used Big Tobacco’s PR playbook
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Jonathan Levy / The Conversation
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Sustainable gift guide: 20+ gifts that keep on giving
20+ gifts to help your new plant parent friends grow their love of plants
The mystery of why some dinosaurs got so enormous
Megalodon’s warm-blooded relatives are still circling the oceans today
What head lice can tell us about human migration
These robots reached a team consensus like a swarm of bees
How frozen baby corals and high-powered lasers could help dying reefs
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Brent M. Foster / Hakai Magazine
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The best cat trees of 2023
The best cat scratching posts in 2023
The best dog DNA tests of 2023
Kelp holds a timeline of Earth’s history
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Bill Morris / Hakai Magazine
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The best compost bins of 2023
Graphic warning labels might convince people to eat less meat
The best dog beds of 2023
Endangered sea turtles build hundreds of nests on the Outer Banks
North America was once home to some unusual wild monkeys
Seals with funny hats are helping map the Antarctic seascape
Why cutting back on cow consumption is so hard
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Naoki Nitta / Grist
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Overfeeding cats will mess with their guts and poop
Rats may have imaginations
The science behind mixing honey into cocktails
The sea star’s whole body is a head
A Danish company just scrapped its ambitious plan for a New Jersey offshore wind farm
Lawn equipment spews ‘shocking’ amount of air pollution, new data shows
We still don’t fully know how sunflowers turn toward the sun
Giant prehistoric lamprey likely sucked blood—and ate flesh
Watch a heavy-lifting drone land a perfect delivery on an offshore wind turbine
8 new types of ‘forever chemicals’ found in river linked to US cancer cluster
Newfound mosasaur was like a giant Komodo dragon with flippers
The best pet water fountains of 2023
New refuge provides hope for critically endangered toad
In the spirit of survival: How Indigenous protectors are saving rez dogs
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Kendra Coulter / MIT Press
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Tornado science is high stakes—and increasingly high-tech
Why ladybugs and ‘Halloween beetles’ are everywhere right now
Wild chimpanzees show signs of potential menopause—a rarity in the animal kingdom
Why electric knifefish ‘shimmy’
This sea-to-farm-to-table restaurant wants kelp to catch on
Hurricane Ian stirred up flesh-eating bacteria in Florida
Drought reveals ancient rock carvings of human faces in Brazil
This seafaring robot ‘eats’ stinky seaweed and dumps it in deep water
How kingfishers pull off breakneck dives without hurting their brains
Rockets and satellites are shedding metal into the atmosphere
Bumblebees carbo-load on the fly
Chicken feather fibers could help make less toxic hydrogen fuel cells
Is de-extinction only a pipette dream? This startup has a big, expensive plan to find out.