The Ancient Underwater Forest
A group of scuba divers discovered a prehistoric underwater forest several miles off Alabama's coast.
7th Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration
Celebrate Earth Day with the 7th Annual World Peace Earth Day Celebration in NYC.
New York Times Closes Environment Desk
The New York Times will close its environment desk in an effort to reduce newsroom costs.
Bump in Genetic Mutations
A recent report published in Nature magazine warns of the sudden rush of mutations amongst us, with an increase in mutations over the last 5,000 years.
Corals and Gobies: A Symbiotic Love Story
Coral reefs, which are threatened across the world's oceans, send messages to certain fish to come save them.
Surviving The 6th Great Mass Extinction
The rapid loss of biodiversity on the planet has become so severe that scientists are referring to it as a mass extinction event.
Tree Speak
Beneath the surface of the forest floor, vast networks of trees and plants are found to connect to and communicate with each other through their roots.
Tribal Technology
The Surui of Brazil are using an unexpected new tool to fight illegal logging: Google Earth.
Life as Art: The Legacy of Lynn Margulis
In the wake of Margulis's work, it is clear that relentless
competition is not the sole theme of life. We have to acknowledge
symbiosis as a key operating principle
of life on Earth and install that operating principle
within our culture.
As Above, So Below: The Worldview of Lynn Margulis
Biologist and geoscientist Lynn
Margulis composed a
grand and powerful view of the living and the non-living through her uncanny ability to lean forward and see the
smallest inhabitants of the Earth and then to leap back at the
speed of thought to conceptualize the entire planet. This seeing from soil to space marked a unique scientific endeavor.
