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When a River Goes Missing, It's Kind of a Big Deal...

Adults Ecology
How does a river suddenly disappear? It gets stolen! How do you steal a river? With climate change!

Indigenous Panamanians protect their forests with drones

Adults Ecology
Settlers are illegally clearing trees on their land. So indigenous people are employing modern technology to stop them.

How much of human history is on the bottom of the ocean?

Adults Ecology
Sunken relics, ghostly shipwrecks, and lost cities aren't just wonders found in fictional adventures. Beneath the ocean's surface, there are ruins where people once roamed and shipwrecks loaded with artifacts from another time.

Do Plants Think?

Adults Ecology
What a Plant Knows?

Enter the Deadliest Garden in the World

Adults Ecology
Locked behind black steel doors in Northumberland, England, the Poison Garden at Alnwick Castle grows around 100 infamous killers.

How Mushrooms Make It Rain

Adults Ecology
Did you know that mushrooms can actually help make it rain? It sounds totally far fetched but take a quick look at this video and you'll start to understand how spores from mushrooms may be responsible for making it rain.

This Is Not A Pine Tree

Adults Ecology
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How big is the ocean?

Adults Ecology
While the Earth's oceans are known as five separate entities, there is really only one ocean. So, how big is it? As of 2013, it takes up 71% of the Earth, houses 99% of the biosphere, and contains some of Earth's grandest geological features. Scott Gass reminds us of the influence humans have on the ocean and the influence it has on us.

Where Do Birds Go In Winter?

Adults Ecology
As winter approaches, V-shaped flocks glide overhead as the world's birds begin their long treks to warmer climates. Humans used to have some pretty crazy theories about where birds went for winter, like the moon, or to the bottom of the ocean.

The Most Amazing Thing About Trees

Adults Ecology
Trees create immense negative pressures of 10's of atmospheres by evaporating water from nanoscale pores, sucking water up 100m in a state where it should be boiling but can't because the perfect xylem tubes contain no air bubbles, just so that most of it can evaporate in the process of absorbing a couple molecules of carbon dioxide. Now I didn't mention the cohesion of water (that it sticks to itself well) but this is implicit in the description of negative pressure, strong surface tension etc.

Dead stuff: The secret ingredient in our food chain

Adults Ecology
When you picture the lowest levels of the food chain, you might imagine herbivores happily munching on lush, living green plants. But this idyllic image leaves out a huge (and slightly less appetizing) source of nourishment: dead stuff. John C. Moore details the "brown food chain," explaining how such unlikely delicacies as pond scum and animal poop contribute enormous amounts of energy to our ecosystems.