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Articles

A Century of Fighting Fire: Suppression and the Sequoia

A Marine Mammal That Hunts From the Ice

A Population Nobody Has Ever Actually Counted

A Wingspan Built for Foraging Chaparral and Coast

Archaeopteryx and the Vanishing Edge of Aves

Aurora: How the Magnetic Field of the Earth Paints the Sky

Bear, Raccoon, or Neither: The Giant Panda's Contested Family Tree

Charting a River Inside the Ocean: Franklin Gulf Stream Map

Coast Redwood: The Tallest Living Things on Earth

Eight Colonies to a Hundred and Twenty Seven: Yellowstone's Beaver Count

Eighty Percent of a Depth Nobody Can See Into, Glowing

Endangered on Paper, Not in the Grove: A Scientist's Dissent

Extreme Tides: The Bay of Fundy and the Limits of the Ordinary

From Two Thousand to a Keystone: The Sea Otter's Recovery

Fynbos: How South Africa's Smallest Floral Kingdom Became Its Richest

Half the Living Coral, Gone in Thirty Years

How the Daintree Earned Its Place on the World Heritage List

How Twenty-Four Countries and the EU Agreed to Leave a Sea Alone

How Whales Became Even-Toed Ungulates

Kicked Out at Two: Why Young Male Lions Have to Leave

Lake Baikal: Twenty Five Million Years in One Rift Valley

Living With the Monsoon: Agriculture, Flood and a Billion Lives

Mammalia, the jaw bones that became an ear

Mangrove Forest: Trees That Grow With Their Roots in the Sea

Not a Third Suborder After All: Where Seals Actually Sit in Carnivora's Family Tree

Not One Wetland But Five, All Sharing a Name

Ocean Currents: The Planet Slow, Endless Conveyor

One Million Named, Millions More Unnamed: Insecta's Real Census

One Sex From Two Chromosome Sets: How Hymenoptera Decides Male From Female

Savanna: The Grassland That Rain Builds, Not Heat

The Automatic Foot Lock That Lets A Perching Bird Sleep Standing Up

The Chisel Edge Built Into Every Rodent's Front Teeth

The Daintree: A Rainforest Older Than Flowering Plants Themselves

The Dunes That Taught Ecology to Read Space as Time

The Elytra That Learned to Drink Fog

The Filter Nobody Built: What a Wetland Actually Does

The Keystone Species That Builds Its Own Ecosystem

The Monsoon: How Ocean and Land Trade Places Every Year

The Nerpa's Puzzle: A Seal a Thousand Miles from Any Sea

The Only Cat in This Atlas That Lives in a Family Group

The Pink Dolphin of the Amazon

The Protea, the Sunbird and the Fire: Fynbos's Coevolved Partners

The Ross Sea: Called by Scientists the Last Ocean

The Sea Otter and the Kelp Forest It Holds Together

The Tailed Frog That Has No Tail: What Anura's Name Really Means

Tides: The Moon, the Sun and the Rhythm of the Sea

Twenty Six Thousand Bears, Counted as Nineteen Separate Populations

Twenty-Two Birds: How the California Condor Came Back from the Edge

Two Kinds of Starting Over: Primary and Secondary Succession

Watching the Northern Lights: Myth, Storms and the Modern Forecast

Where NOAA Says the Ocean Actually Gets Deep

Why Animalia's Species Count Never Holds Still

Why Cold, Not Heat, Draws the Line Around the World's Mangroves

Why the Serengeti Was Never Really Grassland

Wildfire as Ecology: The Process Some Forests Cannot Live Without