Animals
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Climate change turns birds into cannibals
As food becomes scarce, gulls in Washington state are turning to their own kind.
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Pizzlies, narlugas, and other creatures from our weird changing world
An animated guide to how climate change is remixing species.
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Now you can listen to the world’s largest collection of whale sounds
This archive of whale and dolphin recordings is basically "Humpback for Beginners," we assume.
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Sometimes we are all this octopus climbing up the walls
Watch this intrepid mollusk make a break for it at the Seattle Aquarium. Hang in there, you tentacled monster from the deep!
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6 cute animal friendships that will make you love science
This is real science, we swear!
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Picky eaters — like penguins and my cousin Jables — could starve under climate change
Specialist eaters like chinstrap penguins could face species-ending food shortages, while generalists like gentoo penguins thrive.
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We’ve killed off half the world’s wildlife in 40 years, and I’ve got something in my eye
It's not that half of all vertebrate species have gone extinct -- it's just the population counts that have dropped by 52 percent. Oh, phew.
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This marmot wants to make out with you because of climate change
Featuring steamy lines from "nature's pickup artists."
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Should wilderness get the axe?
The Wilderness Act turns 50 this year. But climate change means we need to rethink what "wild" even means.