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Arctic Warming Reduces Sea Ice and Energy for Polar Bears

Polar bears struggle to have enough energy to survive because melting sea ice makes it harder to find food.

Ecology

This invasive species threatens agriculture but perhaps for not much longer, as trained dogs can detect their eggs in vineyards and forests.

It’s cold outside! Stay in with some fun citizen science projects you can do from your living room.

Biology

Alcohol consumption is not just for humans—a wide array of other animals have also evolved to metabolize ethanol.

Do you have a bird feeder at home? Fifty percent of Americans do. Learn how to feed the birds without causing them to crash into your window.

Taste buds evolved on the head and chin of blind cavefish to help them locate food in their dark environment.

Biology

The Dayak fruit bat is the only known male mammal that produces milk. Why aren’t all mammals evolved for breastfeeding their young?

Blubber thickness of Yangtze finless porpoises changes with water temperature and varies across the marine mammal’s body regions.

Emperor penguins officially a threatened species because of projections of population decline from climate change and ineffective conservation.

To better attract pollinators, plants change the chemical and physical properties of their petals to produce alluring colors.