Insects sporting tiny helmets. Penguins wearing trackers. These are some of the ways critters serve in studies extending far beyond the lab rat. Sleep is universal “even though it’s actually very ...

Imagine this scenario: A nuclear reactor fails. Radiation spikes to lethal levels. Temperatures swing from near absolute zero to the boiling point. Everything dies—except the tardigrade. This ...

One key lesson is that it is impossible to eliminate all risk and it can be detrimental to try (Blumstein 2008). For example, ground squirrels and marmots cannot remain in the safety of their burrow ...

BRATTLEBORO — Edible Brattleboro is putting on a winter workshop series exploring the living systems that help nourish us. "Food, Ecosystems and Community: Lessons from a Nature" will teach attendees ...

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Jane Goodall’s career began as a scientist, but her work led her to become a conservationist. What has she learned about resilience, justice and objectivity over her career defending our Earth and all ...

Some 15,000 years ago, tribes of Native Americans made their home in a wilderness area of what today is southern Florida. At that time, they lived in an arid landscape that also was inhabited by giant ...

The best leaders don’t fight the current. They read it.

The natural environment provides human society with essential non-material values, such as cultural symbolism and local ...

Yesterday I received a few holiday greeting emails and some people asked if I could please post something "short and sweet" (as Andy put it) about some life lessons we can learn from nonhuman animals ...