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To save water, Arizona farmers are growing guayule for sustainable tires

At long last, a homecoming for the Fender’s blue butterfly

At long last, a homecoming for the Fender’s blue butterfly

By Jaclyn Moyer / High Country News

Starfish spawning in water

8 award-winning photos of nature’s stranger things

By Stephanie Stone

Full-grown bison standing in a prairie full of yellow goldenrod wildflowers

Bison are bringing biodiversity back to Kansas prairie land

A dark wooden bat house high up on the side of a gray two-story house.

Benefit your neighborhood bats with this DIY bat house

By Jean Levasseur

A crow and a vulture with a bright red head stand facing one another on a leaf-covered forest floor.

Endangered Species

The wackiest-looking birds are the most at risk for extinction

By Philip Kiefer

A field of yellow sunflowers under a bright blue sky with some white clouds.

Pest-fighting plants that could save your garden

By Meagan Shelley

Gila monster lizard and real-life dragon hissing in the desert

Science Fiction

Could dragons be real? Not in the way we think.

By Purbita Saha

bat eating fruit

Turn your backyard into an awesome hangout for bats

By Helen Bradshaw

What these flowers can teach us about adapting to a human-altered world

What these flowers can teach us about adapting to a human-altered world

By Robert I Colautti / The Conversation

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Endangered Species

Macro portraits reveal the glamor and peril of endangered insects

By Lauren J. Young

Asian honeysuckle

Scientists are disagreeing on the effects of invasive species

By Asher Elbein/Undark

Banana butterfly on person's brown ponytail at butterfly house in Frankfurt, Germany

If you have a serious fear of bugs, a butterfly house might change your tune

By Sara Kiley Watson

Paleontologist with a laser scanner over plant imprints and other fossils in a seabed in British Columbia, Canada

These weird marine critters paved the way for the ‘Cambrian explosion’ of species

By Kate Baggaley

A winged insect fossil in rock is about 300 million years old, a fossil example of an early animal to take flight.

When insects got wings, evolution really took off

A carpenter bee on a white flower. If you're trying to figure out how to get rid of carpenter bees, it's best not to kill these crucial pollinators.

Easy ways to stop carpenter bees from remodeling your home

By Julia Rittenberg

How hunting deer became a battle cry in conservation

How hunting deer became a battle cry in conservation

By Brian Payton / Hakai Magazine

Map of vulnerable species in the United States.

Endangered Species

Here’s where biodiversity is disappearing the quickest in the US

By Sara Kiley Watson

4 reasons to let your lawn grow wild

4 reasons to let your lawn grow wild

By Angely Mercado

Pesticides might be worse for bees than we thought

Pesticides might be worse for bees than we thought

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How gross is wearing your shoes inside?

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What can we learn from Australia’s social media ban for teens?

By Rachel Nowak / Knowable Magazine

a frog sits in a lake. it has a brown body with black spots

Endangered Species

Over 10,000 endangered mountain yellow-legged frogs are taking California by storm

By Margherita Bassi

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Why you shouldn’t trust everything you find in an AI web search