Stirring Moss

At the sites chosen for the groundnut scheme, tractors and bulldozers from military surplus stores in Egypt proved unable to tackle the hard ground and tough vegetation, so the planners turned to a novel solution: repurposing surplus Sherman M4A2 tanks...

Like fungi, myxomycetes begin their lives as spores, but when a myxomycete spore germinates and cracks open, a microscopic amoeba slithers out...

The superficial international media hype rattled locals for its treatment of mucilage primarily as a spectacle...

Spectacle Island would not look the way it does today if it were not for Boston...

When we found the lumpy soup of proto-frogs, it felt reassuring to me: a symbol of renewal...

Community groups are playing a prominent role in managing major forests...

Humble dwellings like the Camargue huts invite us to tell a different kind of story about human-environment relationships, one less focused on human beings’ mastery of nature...

As power plants find more effective and eco-friendly ways to produce energy, they often increase their output in response to their elevated efficiency. In doing so, they also produce more CO2 than they would otherwise...

If your apartment is too small and familiar to have people over, and your parks and commons are threadbare and inhospitable by incompetence or intent, you go out to restaurants. Here you find public privacy and urbane intimacy...

In places such as Northern Kazakhstan where there are not that many deciduous trees, poplars quickly took over the environmental imagination of the locals...

What was once an isolated, stable society cloaked in semipermanent darkness has been thrust to the forefront of Arctic change by rapid warming and the interests that warming precipitates...

The evolution of mass raids from group raids happened tens of millions of years ago...

In this era of intersecting crises, conservationists and others will be more and more motivated by a sense of multispecies solidarity...

The substantial reorientation that occurred in Ecuador and many other Latin American countries was driven by historically high primary commodity prices during the first decade of the twenty-first century...

The hand stencils on cave walls in Western Spain have been dated to about 65,000 years ago...

Time will tell exactly how serious the pandemic’s disruption of weather-data gathering and forecasting will be...

With more than 60 percent tree cover, Panama is one of the most forested countries in Central America...

If the tree is ki, what about the acorns? They agree that the acorns are kin, a whole family of little beings...

You can tell if a sett is active by placing twigs over the opening during the day and seeing whether the twigs have been moved during the night.