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Curb climate change or lose bumblebees, blueberries, tomatoes

Karen Johnston 13 Jul 2015

‘Land sparing’ vs. ‘land sharing’: scientists weigh in on how to improve biodiversity on farms

Philip Rothrock 6 Jul 2015

A toad’s relationship with its prey endures in the face of deforestation for palm oil

Jordanna Dulaney 15 Jun 2015

Butterflies stand out as useful bioindicators in Malaysia

Michael Buelna 29 May 2015

Your name here: auctioning the naming rights to new species to fund conservation

Heather D'angelo 17 Apr 2015

Halloween in the Amazon: baby bird dresses up like killer caterpillar

Jeremy Hance 23 Mar 2015

Even cockroaches have personalities

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 12 Mar 2015

Cunning carnivorous plants catch more prey by letting some go

Loren Bell 25 Feb 2015

Pollinator collapse could lead to a rise in malnutrition

Jeremy Hance 9 Feb 2015

How termites hold back the desert

Jeremy Hance 5 Feb 2015

Monarch butterfly population rises a little, but still perilously low

Jeremy Hance 28 Jan 2015

Two vanishing prairie butterflies added to the Endangered Species Act

Jeremy Hance 5 Jan 2015

Google Earth used to identify environmentally important termite mounds

Shayna Wilson 17 Dec 2014

To collect or not to collect? Experts debate the need for specimens

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 10 Dec 2014

Pollinators puzzle to find flowers amidst natural and human fumes

Lisa Marie Potter 9 Dec 2014

Gone for good: world’s largest earwig declared extinct

Jeremy Hance 19 Nov 2014

Pesticides harm bumblebees’ ability to forage

Annam Raza 31 Oct 2014

Termites suffer in logged forests and palm oil plantations

Heather D'angelo 25 Sep 2014

‘Canary in the cornfield’: monarch butterfly may get threatened species status

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 Sep 2014

Scientists honor missing activist by naming a spider after him

Mongabay.com 25 Aug 2014

It’s not just extinction: meet defaunation

Jeremy Hance 24 Jul 2014

‘Stop using the bloody things’: pesticides linked to bee collapse now blamed for bird declines

Jeremy Hance 15 Jul 2014

They think, therefore they spread: plants can make complex conditional decisions

Andrew Mann 7 Jul 2014

Horror movie bugs: new wasp species builds nest with the bodies of dead ants

Jeremy Hance 2 Jul 2014

Fly and wasp biodiversity in Peru linked to strange defense strategy

Nicholas Barrett 18 Jun 2014

More is better: high bee biodiversity boosts crop yields

Jose Hong 12 Jun 2014

Olinguito, tinkerbell, and a dragon: meet the top 10 new species of 2013

Jeremy Hance 22 May 2014

The Harry Potter wasp: public votes to name new species after soul-sucking ghouls

Shreya Dasgupta 5 May 2014

Ants plant rainforests, one seed at a time

Jordanna Dulaney 14 Apr 2014

The enemy of your enemy is your ant bodyguard: spider uses one predator for protection against another

Ariel Mark 9 Apr 2014

U.S. citizens willing to spend billions to protect monarch butterflies

Paul Sutherland 3 Apr 2014

Wonderful Creatures: life is a gamble (inside a caterpillar) for the trigonalid wasp

Ross Piper 27 Mar 2014

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