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Ecology and environment

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Last updated on Sep 23, 2022
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As old-growth grasslands disappear, ecologists test new restoration strategies
4:54
Meet the mycologists aiming to illuminate the hidden world of fungi
4:26
As seed-hauling animals decline, some plants can’t keep up with climate change
4:16
Supercell storm clouds act like atmospheric mountains
3:00
How "managed retreat" can help communities facing sea level rise
5:20
Earth was once a planet of the apes—and they set the stage for human evolution
3:48
Deadly river ‘earthquakes’ could be manageable
3:22
Alaska’s forest fires are shifting the region’s carbon balance—sometimes for the better
3:54
Ten years later, here’s what Fukushima’s damaged reactors look like today
4:24
Hungry teen dinosaurs crowded out their competitors
3:02
How fairy circles form in Shanghai's salt marshes
3:26
Watch—and hear—the impact human noises have on marine life
4:10
Roots from different plants compete for prime real estate underground
3:16
Fires can kindle biodiversity, sparking new approaches to conservation
4:10
Polar bears are starving, and this video reveals why
1:47
How transforming river banks can clean contaminated waterways
4:29
Global warming has made iconic Andean peak unrecognizable
4:38
Deep-sea currents are behind the ocean’s thickest piles of microplastics
2:56
Speedy drones count Antarctic penguin colonies in record time
3:29
How systemic racism shaped the ecosystems of U.S. cities
4:09
Snippet: Gray sharks get dinner by ‘bumming’ food from hard-hunting whitetips
0:17
Animal and human studies reveal health impacts of social inequality
3:57
Threatened pools in Mexican desert hold clues to early life
4:43
Snippet: Sharks absent in 19 percent of coral reefs, shows 18,000 hours of footage
0:51
Can scientists solve Darwin's 'abominable mystery' about the angiosperm explosion?
3:31
How early warnings of drought help prevent catastrophic famines
4:36
Into the overworld: Ex–spy plane to see whether towering storms pose new threat to ozone layer
3:46
New tracking system could show how pesticides are harming bee colonies
2:42
Box jellyfish stings kill—but how often?
4:52
Snippet: Moose eating underwater
1:34
Watch a hurricane put a dent in Earth’s crust
2:50
How bighorn sheep use crowdsourcing to find food on the hoof
3:18
Beaver dams without beavers?
3:14
Tiny shrimp may be mixing ocean water as much as the wind and waves
0:53
There’s a new aurora in subpolar skies. Its name is Steve
2:40
Here’s what happens when you replace toads and turtles with 3D printed replicas in the wild
2:31
Snippet: Human migration over the centuries based on 86 million public genealogy profiles
0:52
As sea levels rise, Bangladeshi islanders must decide between keeping the water out—or letting it in
6:11
Are we going too fast on driverless cars?
4:34
Narwhal hearts beat slowly in panic, and that's probably not a good thing
2:30
Why slow glaciers can sometimes surge as fast as a speeding train--wiping out people in their path
3:26
This high-flying drone can soar up to 6000 meters above sea level
2:23
Cities are putting pressure on animals' genes, from bobcats to gulls to bedbugs
2:49
Pesticides found in honey around the world
1:48
Why was this 16th century Scottish village buried in sand?
1:40
Megarafting animals rode from Japan to US and Canada after the 2011 tsunami
2:40
Most archaeologists think the first Americans arrived by boat. Now, they're beginning to prove it
3:46
Every year, thousands of drowned wildebeest feed this African ecosystem
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Corals can still grow their ‘bones’ in acid waters
1:56
Scientists warn of sleepless nights in a warming world
2:46
Orangutans nurse the longest of all mammals
1:41
Sacrifice of ancient horses gives clues to their domestication
3:30
Baby whale whispers
0:41
Bear cam footage shows bears eating, playing
1:08
Meet the obscure microbe that influences climate, ocean ecosystems, and perhaps even evolution
3:29
Tiny geo tags help map rare bird’s complete migration
1:31
Seagrass can half concentrations of harmful bacteria
1:03
Watch clouds grow from dust particles
0:44
Tomato ancestor evolved 50 million years ago near Antarctica
1:22
Masses of insects on the move
1:23
Turning up plant efficiency
2:09
Pollen, practically indestructible
1:27
We Don't Know: Clouds
3:41
Ozone layer on the mend, thanks to chemical ban
2:15
The battle to save the red squirrel
1:54
What happens to our planet as more people move into cities?
1:51
Pleistocene Park: Born to rewild
3:15
The long history of the Andes
1:54
A trek through the cloud forest
2:09
Take a trip to a NEON site
2:22
Forest health in a changing world
2:34
IBM wires up New York's Lake George
1:47
Making contact: The isolated tribes of the Amazon rainforest
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