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A crow eats the inside of dead squirrels mouth on road.

Why scientists want your photos of wildlife eating lunch

By Matt Simon / Grist

A purple and white carnivorous plant called Arisaema thunbergii growing in a forest. It has a tube and cup shaped flower and uses a musky odor to lure fungus gnats.

Bug-munching plant turns insect nurseries into death traps

By Laura Baisas

Star - Space with the Pleiades over the roof of a residential house.

Street lamps aren’t the only form of artificial light pollution

By Georgia MacMillan, Marie Mahon, Thérèse Conway / The Conversation

Photo illustration of hawkmoth navigating to flower during vehicle exhaust emission.

Air pollution messes with moths’ ability to smell flowers

By Lauren Leffer

red tomatoes on a vine next to some yellow potatoes and peaches

How the tomato created the potato

By Laura Baisas

Dirty unhygienic toilet in an apartment

Would you pay $49 a month to drink recycled wastewater?

By Matt Simon / Grist

An Ixodes tick (left). An Asian tiger mosquito. (right)

What a cold winter means for ticks and mosquitoes

By Laura Baisas

a bat with brown, black, and white fur and open eyes

Robert Battinson, Batlor Swift, and more face off in Bat Beauty Contest

By Laura Baisas

A Joshua tree on Eureka Peak in Joshua Tree National Park.

With hotter, drier weather, California’s Joshua Trees are in trouble

By Jim Robbins / Yale Environment 360

a newly discovered species of plant. it has fuzzy white wool on its green leaves, a yellow center, and two small red flowers

New species of fuzzy sunflower found by national park volunteer

By Laura Baisas

An elevated view of the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo, Japan, filled with a large crowd of pedestrians. People of all ages are walking in various directions across the wide, multi-directional crosswalks, which form a pattern of thick white stripes on the gray pavement. The scene is bright and busy, capturing the constant flow of foot traffic.

Struggling to get in your daily steps? It may be your city’s fault.

By Matt Simon / Grist

Woman gardening, planting a poppy, close-up.

Embrace the fun of growing culinary plants in unexpected places

By Debbie Wolfe

Two men are standing behind an enormous, pale orange Atlantic Giant pumpkin, with their hands resting on it. They are inside a large greenhouse structure, surrounded by green vines and leaves. Both men are smiling and wearing casual t-shirts and jeans.

Giant pumpkin growers face off for world gourd domination

By Diana Hubbell

Close-up of ladybug on twig

How many types of insects are there in the world?

By Nicholas Green / The Conversation

stages of a plant's development

Yes, plants go through ‘puberty’

By Laura Baisas

a more colorful dominant male fish next to a more muted subordinate fish

Stress is warping these fish brains

By Laura Baisas

High angle view of chocolate bar on foil and pink background

Why chocolate is ridiculously expensive right now

By Ayurella Horn-Muller / Grist

Making sex deadly for insects could control pests that carry disease and harm crops

By Bill Sullivan / The Conversation

Green hedge in the frontyard

How to build a living fence

By Debbie Wolfe

Woolly mammoth set in a winter scene environment.

What is ‘de-extinction’ really for?

By Taylor Dotson / MIT Press Reader

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L - R, Sergeants Clarence Beavers, James Kornegay, Ned Bess, Corporal Elijah Wesby and Sergeant Alvin Moon of the United States Army All African American 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion (nicknamed the "Triple Nickles" because of its numerical designation) aim their M3 .45-caliber submachine guns, commonly referred to as the "Grease Gun" during a training exercise at Fort Benning circa February 1944 at Fort Benning, Georgia, United States. These five soldiers were part of the original 17 member selection that succeeded in becoming the first All African American parachute infantry battalion. In early 1945 the battalion were sent to Camp Pendleton in Oregon and assigned to the 9th Services Command, trained by the U.S. Forest Service, and became history's first military airborne firefighting smokejumpers. (Photo by INP/Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

National Park Service names 10 new American World War II Heritage cities

Artist's depiction of White Sands in New Mexico as it existed during the last ice age. At the time, it was marshy and colder, and populated by mammoths, giant sloths, and humans

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North America’s oldest human footprints tell a tale of ice age chaos

a side by side of a sleeping bat with an awake bat

Tiny, critically endangered bat rescued and released in Pennsylvania

By Margherita Bassi

Macro Studio Shot Of Woman's Eye With Close Up On Eyelashes And Pupil

Your eyes dilate depending on your thoughts