Biodiversity

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How Wildlife Thrives in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Science

How Wildlife Thrives in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has become one of Europe's largest de facto nature reserves, where wolves, bears, bison, and rare horses flourish in the...

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How Continental Rifting Works—Africa's Next Ocean Science

How Continental Rifting Works—Africa's Next Ocean

The East African Rift is slowly splitting the continent in two. Here's how tectonic forces tear landmasses apart and eventually create new ocean basin...

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How Invasive Species Spread—and Why They're Hard to Stop Science

How Invasive Species Spread—and Why They're Hard to Stop

Invasive species cost the global economy over $423 billion annually and drive 60% of recorded extinctions. Here's how they arrive, why they thrive, an...

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How Salmon Find Their Way Home—Thousands of Miles Science

How Salmon Find Their Way Home—Thousands of Miles

Salmon navigate thousands of miles of open ocean and return to the exact stream where they were born using a dual navigation system: Earth's magnetic...

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What Is Teotihuacan—and Why Is It Still a Mystery? Science

What Is Teotihuacan—and Why Is It Still a Mystery?

Teotihuacan was the largest city in the pre-Columbian Americas, yet no one knows for certain who built it, what language its people spoke, or why it c...

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How the Goldman Environmental Prize Works—the Green Nobel Science

How the Goldman Environmental Prize Works—the Green Nobel

The Goldman Environmental Prize, often called the Green Nobel, honors six grassroots environmental activists each year — one from each inhabited conti...

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How Mammals Stopped Laying Eggs—the Long Road Science

How Mammals Stopped Laying Eggs—the Long Road

All mammals descend from egg-laying ancestors called synapsids. Here's how the transition from leathery eggs to live birth unfolded over 300 million y...

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How Coral Bleaching Works—and Why Reefs Are Dying Science

How Coral Bleaching Works—and Why Reefs Are Dying

Coral bleaching occurs when rising ocean temperatures break the symbiotic bond between corals and the algae that feed them, turning reefs white and th...

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How Glacier Surges Work—and Why They Threaten Millions Science

How Glacier Surges Work—and Why They Threaten Millions

Surging glaciers can accelerate to 100 times their normal speed, damming rivers, triggering catastrophic floods, and destroying infrastructure. Here i...

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What Is Nanotyrannus—and Why It's Not a Baby T. Rex Science

What Is Nanotyrannus—and Why It's Not a Baby T. Rex

For decades, paleontologists argued whether small tyrannosaur fossils belonged to juvenile T. rex or a separate species. Multiple studies now confirm...

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How Deep-Sea Mining Works—and Why Scientists Worry Science

How Deep-Sea Mining Works—and Why Scientists Worry

Deep-sea mining targets potato-sized mineral nodules on the ocean floor rich in cobalt, nickel, and manganese. As regulators debate whether to allow c...

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How Carbon Sinks Work—and Why They're Weakening Science

How Carbon Sinks Work—and Why They're Weakening

Earth's forests, oceans, and soils absorb roughly half of humanity's carbon emissions each year, but climate change and deforestation are steadily und...

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