A decade of wildlife cameras on Washington's I-90 reveals an unexpected win: tens of thousands of animals choosing bridges and tunnels over deadly highways.
During the Everglades' dry season, American alligators excavate and maintain water-filled depressions in the limestone that concentrate fish, turtles and wading birds — a piece of animal-built infrastructure that ecologists increasingly treat as central to how the southern marsh works.
A desert species absent for a century is now reshaping its ecosystem—one seed-laden dropping at a time.
A small design tweak required by Brussels legislation reveals how plastic pollution's smallest pieces pose the biggest environmental challenge.
Nearly four decades after SN 1987A lit up southern skies from the Large Magellanic Cloud, the James Webb Space Telescope has caught the first strong signature of the neutron star buried in its debris — argon and sulphur ionised by a hidden high-energy source at the centre of the remnant.
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