Brandon Keim
Anthropocene
Maine, United States
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Clear solar cells put the ‘green’ in greenhouses by making them zero-energy
Greenhouses with glass panels made of see-through solar cells could be completely energy-neutral in some climates, according to a study published in Joule. → Read More
Why not to evict bats from buildings
A new study shows just how important buildings can be for little brown bats, a once-common species ravaged by disease. → Read More
Never Underestimate the Intelligence of Trees
Consider a forest: One notices the trunks, of course, and the canopy. If a few roots project artfully above the soil and fallen leaves,… → Read More
Never Underestimate the Intelligence of Trees
Consider a forest: One notices the trunks, of course, and the canopy. If a few roots project artfully above the soil and fallen leaves,… → Read More
Even more evidence that big animals help fight the climate crisis
As scientists learn more about the importance of animals to nature's carbon-sequestering capabilities, they've come to understand that extinctions and → Read More
Q: What's missing from forest carbon accounting? A: Animals
Animals and their vital, now-compromised role in nourishing carbon-storing forests are crucial to humanity's plans to fight climate change. → Read More
The arrival of driverless cars could help us reduce light pollution
If automated eyes don’t need artificial illumination to navigate, how much light might be dimmed? → Read More
A tool used to track crime could reduce conflict between humans and wild animals
For a great many animals, survival in a world of eight billion humans may hinge on avoiding conflict. → Read More
The human-animal conflict is a lot more complex that you think
In Karnataka's Bandipur, a coffee boom may have affected tiger conservation. → Read More
Climate change will force species to find new homes. We have to embrace it.
For these species to survive, people will need to be open-minded to change. → Read More
Alligators keep turning up in unexpected places—and it’s not necessarily a bad thing
Alligators live in fresh water. They can handle a few hours of saltwater, maybe a day at most, but fresh is their natural home. It’s textbook biology—yet people keep finding alligators where they’re not supposed to be. In the Florida Keys, for example, they’re regularly observed in mangrove creeks and saltwater canals. Are these creatures... → Read More
Corals are dying everywhere, except in this warm-water refuge
News about coral reefs seems almost unrelentingly bleak. Everywhere they’re bleaching and collapsing, unable to withstand the ravages of fast-heating waters—except, that is, the Northern Red Sea, where it appears that a vast region of exceptionally hardy reefs will survive temperatures far exceeding present-day norms. In this reef system people might yet learn lessons that... → Read More
Why Are So Many Animals Homosexual?
Few creatures can boast of devotions so deep as greylag geese. Most are monogamous; many spend their decade-long adult lives with… → Read More
‘Delightful’ Experiments Reveal What Birds See in Their Mind’s Eye
Japanese tits communicate can mentally picture what they’re talking about, research suggests. → Read More
What Pigeons Teach Us About Love
Last spring I came to know a pair of pigeons. I’d been putting out neighborly sunflower seeds for them and my local Brooklyn house… → Read More
How “Useless” Science Unraveled an Amphibian Apocalypse
One spring day in 1984, Joyce Longcore got a phone call from Joan Brooks, a biologist at the University of Maine. Brooks had received… → Read More
Decoding Nature’s Soundtrack
One of most immediately striking features about Bernie Krause is his glasses. They’re big—not soda-bottle thick, but unusually… → Read More
This Piece of Ocean Trash Criticizes Ocean Trash
Nearly three years ago, George Boorujy took a trip to Wolfe’s Pond Park, on the southeastern edge of Staten Island in New York City,… → Read More
Even Snakes Have Friends—One More Reason Not to Slaughter Them
The thousands of rattlesnakes that will die at a Texas roundup this weekend have complex social lives that we're only just starting to understand. → Read More
Why Are So Many Animals Homosexual?
Few creatures can boast of devotions so deep as greylag geese. Most are monogamous; many spend their decade-long adult lives with… → Read More