Dr. Caitlin Rankins research shows that a long-held theory about why an ancient civilization passed out of existence was wrong. Cahokia Mounds in...

Dr. Scarlett Howards research on cognition of honeybees got a lot of media attention when in 2018, she published a paper that showed bees can...

Tony Hisss new book, Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth, lays out both the urgency for and possibility of protecting...

Jeanne Gang has an explicit intention to make the human built environment as kind as possible for birds, nature, wildlife and the Earths atmosphere...

Climate change is scary. The magnitude of the problem makes it hard for people to commit to direct action to solve it, hoping instead (reasonably but perhaps impractically!) that government will do the work...

Akiko Busch is well-known for her writing on design, culture and the natural world. Her essays continue to touch on those subjects although increasingly, it incorporates—or directly addresses—the natural world...

Andrew Robichaud explores the peculiar coexistence of people and farm animals in America’s cities. In the 1800s, it wasn’t unusual for men wearing top hats and formal attire to stride down tony Manhattan avenues right next to goats and cows...

Dr. Katy Greenwald has a longstanding interest in puzzling out the success and persistence of North America's "gene thieves," the unisexual (all female) Ambystoma salamanders...

David Sibley started drawing birds at age five and never stopped. Having an ornithologist father and being around his father’s friends, all of whom were also interested in birds, made birdwatching seem an ordinary thing all grown men did...

Structural geologist Marcia Bjornerud was raised by free-thinking parents who instilled in her a love of books and nature. She’s published many professional papers (read mainly by experts in the field) and two popular books that,