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Down to Earth

Down to Earth

The biodiversity crisis, explained

You probably have “forever chemicals” in your body. Here’s what that means.

By Benji Jones

Can you get bird flu?

By Keren Landman and Benji Jones

There’s a frightening new report about wildlife declines. But many are getting the story wrong.

By Benji Jones

These spectacular deep-sea creatures live in a potential mining hot spot

By Benji Jones

Earth’s future depends on the Amazon. This month, it’s up for a vote.

By Benji Jones

A better solution to Florida’s hurricane problem

By Benji Jones

Blowtorching spotted lanternflies is, in fact, a bad idea

By Benji Jones

The race to find 2,100 missing species before they go extinct

By Benji Jones

Hidden inside the Inflation Reduction Act: $20 billion to help fix our farms

By Benji Jones

Listen to the heartbeat of the largest animal to have ever lived

By Benji Jones

Meanwhile, Congress is set to pass a huge wildlife conservation bill with bipartisan support

By Benji Jones

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Why scientists are desperate to find a salamander that’s been missing for 71 years

More than 2,000 species worldwide are considered lost. Could finding them avert extinctions?

By Benji Jones

Otters are thriving in … Iowa?

By Benji Jones

This could be the coolest summer of the rest of your life

By Benji Jones

How Yellowstone’s animals survive a catastrophic flood

By Benji Jones

A teensy, tiny glimmer of hope for polar bears

By Benji Jones

Why investors suddenly care about saving the environment

By Benji Jones

The pollution from Russia’s war will poison Ukraine for decades

By Benji Jones

Here’s where dangerous ticks are spreading across the US — and what to do about them

By Benji Jones

The eel-shaped parasite that threatens a $7 billion economy in the Great Lakes

By Benji Jones

What’s killing the world’s biggest fish?

By Benji Jones

The horrific bird flu that’s wiped out 36 million chickens and turkeys, explained

By Kenny Torrella

One-fifth of all crocodiles, snakes, and other reptiles are threatened with extinction

By Benji Jones

Hacking coral sex to save an ecosystem in peril

By Benji Jones

Growing up Maasai and the art of healing the Earth

By Benji Jones

Animal sounds are a marvel of evolution. We can’t afford to drown them out.

By Neel Dhanesha

The bizarre deep-sea creatures living on the Endurance shipwreck

By Benji Jones

The troubling link between electric cars and ... flamingos?

By Benji Jones

The loss of insects is an apocalypse worth worrying about

By Benji Jones

Oops, cleaning the Great Pacific Garbage Patch was probably a bad idea

By Benji Jones

5 signs of how climate change is unraveling Earth’s ecosystems

By Benji Jones

Scientists are recruiting elephant seals to eavesdrop on whales

By Benji Jones

These tiny succulent plants are being poached by the thousands

By Meredith Lawrence

The bad news about your avocado habit

By Benji Jones

How gray wolves divided America

By Benji Jones

The manatees are starving

By Benji Jones

There’s a Covid-19 epidemic in deer. It could come back to haunt us. 

By Brian Resnick

One Good Thing: A soothing tabletop game about birds

By Brian Anderson

Paleontologists study the past. This one has a warning for the future.

By Neel Dhanesha

The extinction crisis that no one’s talking about

By Benji Jones

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