Meet Katherine Johnson, the computer who helped send men to the moon
Read now →John Glenn wouldn't blast off until she double-checked the IBM's calculations
Meet Marjory Stoneman Douglas, champion and savior of the Everglades
Read now →Writer, suffragette, and fierce protector of the "worthless swamp"
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
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
There was so much more to Rachel Carson beyond 'Silent Spring'
Read now →The trained zoologist and a bureaucrat pushed for environmental safety her whole life
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
How an interloper snake decimated Guam's delicious wild chilies
Read now →The snakes don't eat chilies. The connection: birds
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
My life in butterflies: how a childhood hobby shaped my career
Read now →Citizen scientists make tangible contributions to data collection
Thinking about releasing thousands of balloons for your local Indy 500? That's littering
Read now →The balloons are supposed to be biodegradable but they're really not