Nature Conservation

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How Plants Make Sound—Ultrasonic Clicks You Can't Hear Science

How Plants Make Sound—Ultrasonic Clicks You Can't Hear

Stressed plants emit ultrasonic clicking sounds through a process called xylem cavitation. Recent research shows these clicks carry information about...

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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 Wildfires Spread—and Why Some Become Unstoppable Science

How Wildfires Spread—and Why Some Become Unstoppable

Wildfires depend on three factors—fuel, weather, and topography—that together determine whether a small flame dies out or becomes a devastating infern...

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How Corona Discharge Works—Trees Glow in Storms Science

How Corona Discharge Works—Trees Glow in Storms

Corona discharge causes treetops to glow with faint ultraviolet light during thunderstorms. Scientists recently filmed the phenomenon for the first ti...

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How Managed Aquifer Recharge Works—Banking Water Underground Science

How Managed Aquifer Recharge Works—Banking Water Underground

Managed aquifer recharge is an increasingly vital water management strategy that deliberately channels stormwater, treated wastewater, and surface wat...

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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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How Federal Mineral Withdrawals Work on Public Lands Economy

How Federal Mineral Withdrawals Work on Public Lands

Federal mineral withdrawals are the primary legal tool used to block mining on U.S. public lands. Here's how the process works, who holds the power, a...

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How Earth Day Works—and Why It Changed the World Science

How Earth Day Works—and Why It Changed the World

Earth Day began as a campus teach-in in 1970 and grew into the largest secular civic event on the planet, directly spawning the EPA and landmark envir...

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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 Megathrust Earthquakes Work—Earth's Most Powerful Science

How Megathrust Earthquakes Work—Earth's Most Powerful

Megathrust earthquakes are the most powerful seismic events on the planet, generated where tectonic plates collide at subduction zones. This explainer...

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