Algae provide clues about 600 million years of plant evolution
The Earth’s surface is covered by plants. They make up the majority of biomass on land and exhibit a wide range of diversity, from mosses to trees. This astounding biodiversity…
Want to fight climate change? Don’t poach gorillas (or elephants, hornbills, toucans, etc.)
Here’s a climate solution we can all get behind: don’t kill elephants. Or poach gorillas — or wipe out tapirs, hornbills, or other large-bodied wildlife that eat fruit and disperse…
Neptune’s disappearing clouds linked to the solar cycle
Astronomers have uncovered a link between Neptune’s shifting cloud abundance and the 11-year solar cycle, in which the waxing and waning of the Sun’s entangled magnetic fields drives solar activity.…