I Am a Scorpion. It Is My Nature.
The fable, as it is told, involves a scorpion and a frog. The scorpion needs to cross a river, so he asks the frog to carry him on his back.&nbs...
The fable, as it is told, involves a scorpion and a frog. The scorpion needs to cross a river, so he asks the frog to carry him on his back.&nbs...
New Scientist | Posted 10.25.2009 | Green
The fungus now decimating frog populations around the world does its damage by impairing the animals' ability to absorb electrolytes through their ski...
Andrew Wetzler | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green
Today the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it will initiate a review of the health and environmental effects of atrazine, one of the most widely used pesticides in the United States.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.23.2009 | Media
Holy shit. Did Glenn Beck just kill a poor little frog, on national teevee? Yes! Or...no, maybe it was faked! Or maybe it was real, and Beck is no...
Mairi Beautyman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
IUCN: "Amphibians are the most threatened group of animals in the world, with one in three of the 6,000... species at risk of extinction." And according to the IUCN, that's bad for humans too.
Karin Luisa | Posted 09.08.2009 | Living
I wondered what it was like to be such a squooshy being, and he perhaps wondered why I was so big.
AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 06.12.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — Zoos in the U.S., Panama and Mexico are deploying researchers in Central America to develop new ways to fight a fungus blamed for w...
AP | KRISTEN GELINEAU | Posted 04.25.2009 | Green
SYDNEY — A brilliant green tree frog with huge black eyes, jumping spiders and a striped gecko are among more than 50 new animal species scienti...
Neil McCarthy | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics
The GOP is telling us that the solution to our current problems is some combination of tax cuts, a spending freeze, reduction of the deficit, and the condemnation the "earmark."
BBC NEWS | Posted 03.09.2009 | Green
Understanding a region's climatic history can help locate areas rich in species, scientists say. A research group from North and South America used t...
Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics