Elephant seals are harbingers — canaries in the coal mine — for climate change. A long-running experiment tracks northern elephant seal populations using a combination of sensor tags and field Keep reading
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Reintroducing Beavers
Beavers are impressive ecological engineers and a keystone species for wetland environments. But in the UK, it’s been nearly 400 years since beavers were regularly found in the wild. In Keep reading
Rivers in the Sky
The water cycle is quite a bit more complicated than what we learn in elementary school, and the environment around us contributes to that cycle in invisible but vital ways. Keep reading
The Livers of Our Rivers
To the naked eye, mussels and other bivalves don’t appear to be doing much. But these filter feeders are hard at work. The mussel takes in water through its incurrent Keep reading
Making Better Tags for Tracking Turtles
Tagging equipment is used on all manner of aerial and marine creatures to gather data about animal behavior in their natural environments. It can be difficult, though, for researchers to Keep reading