A warm body in the rainforest gives off a loud chemical signal. For most mosquitoes, that signal could belong to almost any ...

Escape the milk run and discover the Gambier Islands, where black pearl farms, wild coffee, and remote anchorages await. The post The Gambiers: French Polynesia's Best-Kept Secret appeared first on ...

The first two months of the year would ordinarily see Ganjar Budi Setiaji hurrying around Plana village’s durian orchard, here in the hilly Javanese district of Banyumas. But on the last Tuesday of ...

Native forest restoration usually starts with faster growing "nurse plants" that provide shelter under which to plant bigger ...

For decades, scientists have relied on tree rings to estimate how long trees can live. But new research suggests that this widely used method may have been underestimating the lifespan of many ...

Sophie Koonin discusses the realities of large-scale technical migrations, using Monzo’s shift to TypeScript as a roadmap. She explains how to handle "bends in the road," from documentation and ...

Research shows that a phenomenon called St. Elmo’s Fire, which occurs during thunderstorms, may be much more common than ...

Because the sparking happens so uniformly across the branches they observed, the team suspects the phenomenon scales up massively. Tens to hundreds of leaves on every treetop under a thunderstorm ...