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Hummingbirds run on sugar. Sweet nectar powers their tiny, furious bodies and super-fast wings, which beat as many as 80 to 90 times per second. And...
Hummingbirds run on sugar. The fuel powers their tiny, furious bodies and super-fast wings, which beat as many as 80 to 90 times per second. And...
Hurricane season in the Atlantic has officially begun. And while this year will likely be less extreme than in 2024 — one of the most destructive...
This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Nearly two decades ago,...
Nearly two decades ago, scientists made an alarming discovery in upstate New York: Bats, the world’s only flying mammal, were becoming infected with...
During a severe heat wave in 2023, scientists scuba diving off the coast of Papua New Guinea captured clownfish to measure their bodies. Between...
In 2021, more than 140 countries around the world promised to put an end to deforestation by the end of the decade. Those countries — including...
Click here to read this story in English. SONORA, México — Este paisaje no parecía ser un lugar donde encontrar jaguares, el felino de la selva...
Haga clic aquí para leer esta historia en español. SONORA, Mexico — This landscape didn’t seem like a place to find jaguars, the world’s most...
The bird above is not your typical charismatic species. It’s no bald eagle, no peregrine falcon. It’s a groundbird known as the lesser...
Vox reader Stefanos Nasiopoulos asks: How do instincts work in animals? Do they use the same mechanism as memories? How are they different from...
Oh, to be a cicada. For the last 17 years, a group of cicadas known as Brood XIV has been buried several inches underground, doing very little. This...
This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you drive across Iowa,...
If you drive across Iowa, you’ll probably notice two things aside from the many farms: Trump signs and wind turbines. Iowa is Trump country. While...
The koala is a national icon of Australia. And in some parts of the country, these marsupials — known for their fluffy ears, adorable clingy babies,...
In late 2021, I stood in a forest about two hours from Mexico City and watched as a river of butterflies passed overhead. They were monarchs — the...
For those of us with anxiety (hello!), the class of prescription drugs known as benzodiazepines, or benzos, can be a boon in times of crisis. Though...
This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Each year, in late spring and...
Each year, in late spring and early summer, female sea turtles will crawl out of the ocean under moonlight to lay their eggs in the sand, often...
This story was produced in collaboration with The Dodo. One morning this week, Hanna Koch was snorkeling in the Florida Keys when she came across a...
In the 1970s, acid rain was one of the most serious environmental threats in North America and Europe. The air was so laden with pollution from coal...
This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In the open grasslands of South...
In the open grasslands of South Dakota, not far from the dramatic rock formations of Badlands National Park, lives one of the continent’s cutest,...
President Donald Trump says he wants the US to have the cleanest air and water on the planet — a desire, unsurprisingly, shared by all...
America’s beloved national parks face a problem that could, in a matter of weeks, grow into a full-blown crisis. The number of people visiting...
This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US Fish and Wildlife Service,...
This story was originally published by Vox.com and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. While President Donald Trump has...
The US Fish and Wildlife Service, the nation’s only government agency dedicated to conserving plants and animals, has frozen its vast portfolio of...
While President Donald Trump has caused chaos and confusion in his first few weeks in office, he’s made one thing very clear: His administration...
“In my view, climate change is real and it is an existential threat.” “My inclination is to take dams down.” “The toxic chemicals that...
Once a year, typically after sunset in the late summer, the coral baby-making process begins. Large colonies of coral spawn, spewing out sperm and...
If we are, as some city officials have said, in a war with rats, we are clearly losing. We’ve been losing for years. Although cities have ramped up...
“In my view, climate change is real and it is an existential threat.” “My inclination is to take dams down.” “The toxic chemicals that...
As devastating wildfires continue to burn through Los Angeles, so far killing at least 10 people and forcing well over 100,000 people to evacuate, or...
This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month,...
Amy Sedaris has a lovely apartment in the desirable Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City, though she has often described it as a hutch....