The Lithium Mine Versus the Wildflower
The deposit could power 400,000 clean-energy car batteries. There’s just one roadblock: a rare, fragile species of buckwheat, which for a mine might ..
The deposit could power 400,000 clean-energy car batteries. There’s just one roadblock: a rare, fragile species of buckwheat, which for a mine might ..
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. ..
Dry conditions are worsening a warm-water disease that’s sweeping through juvenile fish. Their deaths will create a future crisis for both fish and human ..
Aristolochia microstoma finds love by smelling like death. Coffin flies can’t resist. ..
The discovery of exotic arachnids reveals as much about the structure of science as it does about the creatures. ..
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. ..
Seagrasses, mangrove forests, and wetlands store tons of carbon. But can a market based on regrowing them avoid the pitfalls that plague land-based programs? ..