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Lessons From Lake Tanganyika’s Scale Eating Fish

The macabre diets of scale-eating cichlids help shed light on the important role of frequency dependence in shaping genetic variation and the natural world.

Jeffrey McKinnon |

Environment

Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions

Thom van Dooren's new book about efforts to save endangered snails in Hawai‘i provides valuable insight into threats to global biodiversity.

Tara Lohan / The Revelator |

Environment

Grandma’s ‘Bawena’: On the Kinship of Plants and People

My family introduced me not only to plant knowledge but also to a frame through which I place myself into my environment and universe.

Enrique Salmón |

Environment

City of Weeds: Tracing the Origins of the Urban Ecological Imaginary

Geographer and urbanist Matthew Gandy explores the fascinating history of spontaneous forms of urban nature.

Matthew Gandy |

Environment

Restoration's Ambition

With restoration at the center stage of global commitments to achieve sustainable development goals, reverse declines in biodiversity, and mitigate climate change, the need to bring the practice up to date could not be more urgent.

Eric Higgs |

Environment

Frogs Want to Be Heard. Yannick Dauby Is Listening.

For nearly two decades, French sound artist Yannick Dauby has journeyed all over Taiwan capturing the songs of frogs.

Tobias Fischer |

Science & Tech

Everything Is Wrong: Bernie Krause’s Concept of 'Biophony'

If soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause’s theories are true, then animal song is part of a far more complex and all-encompassing sound world.

Tobias Fischer |