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Down to Earth

The biodiversity crisis, explained

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The end of coral reefs as we know them

By Benji Jones

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Bird flu in cows — and now in milk. How worried should we be?

By Benji Jones and Kenny Torrella

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The meat industry’s war on wildlife

By Kenny Torrella

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Most people are disgusted by these animals. These New Yorkers are filling their homes with them.

By Benji Jones

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The unexpected joy of the Squirrel Census

By Keren Landman, MD

Many coral reefs are dying. This one is exploding with life.

By Benji Jones

Are rainforests doomed? Not necessarily.

By Benji Jones

We know how to save these beloved endangered whales. Yet we’re mindlessly killing them.

By Benji Jones

Japan’s cherry blossoms are a marker of natural time — and how climate change is altering it

By Bryan Walsh

Groceries are expensive, but without these furry predators they could get even pricier

By Benji Jones

Down to Earth, our project on the biodiversity crisis, explained

By Eliza Barclay and Brian Anderson

To save these iconic sea creatures in Florida, scientists are throwing them a sex party

By Benji Jones

This chart of ocean temperatures should really scare you

By Benji Jones

Is oat milk unhealthy? That’s the wrong question.

By Benji Jones

Scientists strapped cameras to a bunch of polar bears. The footage is breathtaking — and alarming.

By Benji Jones

Beware: A cheese crisis looms

By Benji Jones

The Earth is getting greener. Hurray?

By Benji Jones

This camel has a very important job

By Miles W. Griffis

The US uses endangered monkeys to test drugs. This law could free them.

By Dayton Martindale

Is this a newborn great white shark? Big if true.

By Benji Jones

Bats have a unique superpower. Climate change is turning it into a liability.

By Benji Jones and Kimberly Mas

Hawaii’s out-of-control, totally bizarre fight over stray cats

By Benji Jones

Something weird is happening to these Alpine goats. Scientists say it’s an ominous sign.

By Benji Jones

Should we cut down trees to save them? The answer is complicated.

By Benji Jones

Indigenous activists are risking their lives for butterflies

By Anjan Sundaram

The ridiculously stupid reason the US is letting animals spiral toward oblivion

By Benji Jones

Welcome to the extinction capital of the world

By Benji Jones

How to detox coal country

By Kate Morgan

The severe El Niño in South America is a preview of a climate-changed world

By Umair Irfan

Water-hungry golf courses plague Arizona’s native javelina-filled landscape

By Benji Jones

These strange underwater animals could save our lives. If we don’t destroy them first.

By Benji Jones

It’s not just Paris. There’s a “global resurgence” of bedbugs.

By Benji Jones

It’s clearer than ever that we’re pushing the Amazon rainforest to its dreaded demise

By Benji Jones

Scientists will unleash an army of crabs to help save Florida’s dying reef

By Benji Jones

I visited a beautiful coral reef in 2022. What I saw there this summer shocked me.

By Benji Jones

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Florida has become a zoo. A literal zoo.

By Benji Jones

America’s most iconic coral reef is dying. Only one thing will save it.

By Benji Jones

How cars ruin wild animals’ lives

By Marina Bolotnikova

Rethinking the war on invasive species

By Bryan Walsh

How sharks avoid the wrath of an extreme hurricane

By Benji Jones

New York’s shark-infested waters are a good thing. Yes, really.

By Benji Jones

Why the mosquito that spreads West Nile virus is becoming resistant to insecticides

By Keren Landman, MD

This beetle’s sex is on fire. Literally.

By Benji Jones

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