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A team of biologists recently studied rainfrogs in the forests of northern Ecuador. While doing so, they made a surprising…
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Penguin Census
SNOW ISLAND, Antarctica— Click. Click click click. Click. Conservation biologist Steve Forrest is standing at the top of a rocky…
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Change in the Air
Cities and countries around the world are asking residents to stay home to help slow the spread of COVID-19. Fewer…
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Kid Heroes for the Planet
Earth Day is April 22. It’s a day when people around the world work to help the planet. But many…
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Forest Life
The Amazon rain forest is home to millions of plant and animal species. Ecologist Daniel Nepstad calls it an “exuberant…
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8 Questions for the Irwins
Bindi and Robert Irwin are the children of the late Steve Irwin, a conservationist and a zookeeper at Australia Zoo.…
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Safe Travels
Patty Garvey-Darda loves pikas, which are small mammals related to rabbits. “I think they are about the cutest animals alive,”…
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Rare Animal Rediscovered
A tiny deerlike animal has been rediscovered in Vietnam, according to a paper published on November 11. The silver-backed chevrotain,…
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Tech for Trees
In 2012, Topher White visited a wildlife sanctuary in Indonesia. He and his fellow volunteers were hiking through the rain…
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Youth in Action
Leading climate activists gathered at the United Nations (U.N.) Youth Climate Summit, in New York City, on September 21. Of…
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Forest on Fire
The Amazon rain forest is on fire. There are more fires burning there than ever before. That’s according to Brazil’s…
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Record-Breaking Heat
July 2019 was the hottest month ever recorded. That’s according to scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).…
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Sailing for the Planet
Today, Greta Thunberg set sail for the United States. The 16-year-old climate activist is traveling across the Atlantic Ocean on…
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Planting Seeds
On Monday, millions of people in Ethiopia planted more than 350 million trees in 12 hours. The event was part…
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A Rare Bear
Scientists at the Wolong National Nature Reserve, in China, have made an unusual discovery. With a motion-activated camera, they caught…
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Giraffes in Danger?
The giraffe may soon join the lion and elephant on the endangered-species list. In April, the United States Fish and…
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Climate Crisis
Nature is in more trouble now than ever before in human history. More than 1 million species are on the…
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Turning the Tide
The Tappan Zee Bridge, north of New York City, carried automobiles across the Hudson River for 62 years. But in…
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Kid Heroes for the Planet
Earth Day is April 22. On this day, people around the world focus on environmental issues. But you don’t have…
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Waste Not
Each weekday, more than 30 million students eat meals served in school cafeterias in the United States. And when lunch…
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Diving In
Growing up near a beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Daniel Botelho felt pulled by the sea. As a boy,…
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Species at Risk
Monarch butterfly populations in California reached a historic low in 2018, according to a new count. It estimates that the…
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Climate Crisis
The worst effects of climate change could happen sooner than expected. That’s the warning of a report released October 8…
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Team Puffin
Atlantic puffins spend most of their life at sea, floating in the open ocean. When it’s time to lay eggs,…
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Rising Waters
When Hurricane Florence barreled in from the Atlantic Ocean and landed in North Carolina on the morning of September 14,…
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Toxic Waters
A toxic algae bloom, or red tide, has killed thousands of animals off Florida’s Gulf Coast and driven people away…
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Penguins in Peril
The world’s largest colony of king penguins has shrunk by 90%, researchers say. Thirty years ago, there were some 2…
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Changing the Tide for Coral Reefs
Hawaii lawmakers are on a mission to save coral reefs. On July 3, Hawaii governor David Ige signed a bill…
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An Epic Eruption
On May 3, Hawaii’s Big Island experienced a major volcanic explosion. The volcano Kilauea pushed lava and toxic gas from…
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Sweet Solutions
Last year, Americans spent more than $22 billion on chocolate. But the tasty treat comes at a far greater cost…
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