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How Climate Change Could Starve the Monkeys

My sister the scientist makes a startling discovery in an Ugandan jungle.

science and culture for people who love beautiful writing.

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Julia Rothman is an illustrator and author who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Her latest book is Nature Anatomy.

Cutting-edge science, unraveled by the very brightest living thinkers.

When Earth Had Rings

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Flowers and the Birth of Ecology

Flowers and the Birth of Ecology
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- October 3, 2024
- Environment
Without flowers, there would be no us.
Will Plants Grow on the Moon?
- By Tom Metcalfe
- September 26, 2024
- Environment
Three Earth plants will soon make a new home on the lunar surface.
The Surfer and the Businessman
- By John Steele
- September 23, 2024
- Environment
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Frozen Reefs
- By CD Davidson-Hiers
- September 20, 2024
- Environment
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- By Alice Sun
- September 9, 2024
- Environment
How our sense of what’s right and wrong fluctuates through the year.