Biodiversity

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How Fishing Quotas Are Set—and Why They Often Fail Science

How Fishing Quotas Are Set—and Why They Often Fail

Fishing quotas are meant to prevent overfishing, but the process that turns scientific advice into catch limits is riddled with political compromise....

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How Urban Evolution Works—Animals Adapting to Cities Science

How Urban Evolution Works—Animals Adapting to Cities

Cities are driving rapid genetic and behavioral changes in wildlife. From lizards with bigger toe pads to mice that digest junk food, urban evolution...

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How Gray Whale Migration Works—the Longest on Earth Science

How Gray Whale Migration Works—the Longest on Earth

Gray whales travel up to 14,000 miles each year between Arctic feeding grounds and Mexican breeding lagoons, navigating by Earth's magnetic field and...

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How Zoonotic Spillover Works—and Why It Sparks Pandemics Science

How Zoonotic Spillover Works—and Why It Sparks Pandemics

Most emerging infectious diseases originate in animals. Here's how pathogens jump the species barrier, why certain animals are prime reservoirs, and w...

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How Emperor Penguins Survive Antarctica—and Why They're at Risk Science

How Emperor Penguins Survive Antarctica—and Why They're at Risk

Emperor penguins endure the harshest conditions on Earth through an extraordinary breeding cycle that depends entirely on stable sea ice—a foundation...

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How Light Pollution Works—and Why It's Erasing Stars Science

How Light Pollution Works—and Why It's Erasing Stars

Artificial light at night creates skyglow, disrupts wildlife, suppresses melatonin, and has brightened Earth's nights by 16% since 2014. Here's how it...

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What Is the Cambrian Explosion and Why It Matters Science

What Is the Cambrian Explosion and Why It Matters

Around 538 million years ago, nearly every major animal group appeared in the fossil record within a geological instant. Here is how the Cambrian Expl...

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How Oyster Reefs Work—and Why They Guard Coastlines Science

How Oyster Reefs Work—and Why They Guard Coastlines

Oyster reefs are among the most valuable yet imperiled marine ecosystems on Earth. This explainer covers how oysters build living reefs, why these str...

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What Are Supervolcano Calderas and How Do They Refill? Science

What Are Supervolcano Calderas and How Do They Refill?

Supervolcano calderas are massive craters formed when colossal eruptions drain underground magma chambers, causing the surface to collapse. Scientists...

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Polish Scientist Discovers 24 Species in the Depths of the Pacific Science

Polish Scientist Discovers 24 Species in the Depths of the Pacific

Dr. Anna Jażdżewska from the University of Łódź led an international team that described 24 new species of deep-sea crustaceans in the Clarion-Clipper...

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How Scientists Discover New Deep-Sea Species Science

How Scientists Discover New Deep-Sea Species

From ROV dives to decades-long taxonomy backlogs, the process of finding and naming unknown ocean life is a race against extinction in Earth's last gr...

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How Pollen Feeds Honeybees—and Why They're Starving Science

How Pollen Feeds Honeybees—and Why They're Starving

Pollen is the only solid food honeybees eat, providing proteins, fats, and critical sterols they cannot produce themselves. As flower diversity shrink...

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