Hungry Wild Pigs Are Worsening Climate Change
When the invasive swine root through soils around the world, they release as much carbon dioxide as a million cars. Good luck getting rid of them. ..
When the invasive swine root through soils around the world, they release as much carbon dioxide as a million cars. Good luck getting rid of them. ..
Extreme environments offer them an unexpected paradise. Now researchers and conservationists want to get a head count. ..
An effort to bring wild buffalo to the Great Plains aims to restore one of the world’s most endangered landscapes and increase climate resilience. ..
The discovery of exotic arachnids reveals as much about the structure of science as it does about the creatures. ..
Coral in the Red Sea is unusually heat tolerant. The secret to its success may lie in the lucky confluence of geography and genetics. ..
These death-defying rodents do not age normally. Will their weird biology help extend human life spans, or are those ambitions a dead end? ..
The tiny jellies, which arrived sometime after Henry David Thoreau, are an example of how a non-native species can coexist peacefully with its new environment. ..
Researchers only get a chance to study Brood X every 17 years. WIRED came for the ride—and got up close to thousands of hatching cicadas. ..
A new study shows how bug spray, flashlights, and foot traffic can spell disaster for the fragile insects. ..
A new study says the reviled stinging insects play a critical ecological role—and their venom might even be useful to people. ..