Meet Katherine Johnson, the computer who helped send men to the moon
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There was so much more to Rachel Carson beyond 'Silent Spring'
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How an interloper snake decimated Guam's delicious wild chilies
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My life in butterflies: how a childhood hobby shaped my career
Read now →Citizen scientists make tangible contributions to data collection
How weather radar can predict bird migration
Read now →New data helps predict peak bird movements, helping people change their behavior to save avian lives
Boobies of the Galápagos are replacing their disappearing food source with junk fish
Read now →Decades of research show how the sardine's decline threatens an entire ecosystem
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How fieldwork on a remote, tiny island taught me to navigate family dinners
Read now →Doing science far away helped this ecologist talk to those close to home
How to be a better tourist? Look to the Galápagos
Read now →Tourism accounts for 8 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. We can do more to limit our footprint, carbon and cultural
Blue whales and orcas and more form an emotional bond with humans in "The Breath of a Whale"
Read now →Leigh Calvez blends Cetacean science with Cetacean narrative in her latest book
Meet Marjory Stoneman Douglas, champion and savior of the Everglades
Read now →Writer, suffragette, and fierce protector of the "worthless swamp"
Meet Mary Golda Ross, one of the first Native Americans in engineering
Read now →Much of her Cold War work on missiles is still classified today
Thinking about releasing thousands of balloons for your local Indy 500? That's littering
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