ECOLOGY

Good news for anyone who hates raking their lawn: You don’t have to.

Mother Nature can be scary, as these films full of homicidal bunnies, pissed-off piranhas, and one mutated bear prove.

Slime mold definitely had a moment—but it’s hard to beat two dead salamanders floating in a carnivorous plant.

Thanks to Leonardo DiCaprio’s environmental activism, there’s now a critically endangered species named in his honor.

How many ice ages have there been so far? The same number of ‘Ice Age’ movies that have been released. (Five.)

Certain lands can store large quantities of carbon (though we also need to cut carbon emissions in the first place).

Georgia needs your help to prevent the Argentine black and white tegu from becoming a devastating invasive species.

The differences between forests, woods, and jungles aren't exactly an apple trees to orange trees kind of comparison.

The move will save more than 1300 tons of plastic every year.

The winged mammals play a vital—albeit little-appreciated—role in agave production.

Scientists just discovered 1.5 million penguins living on a chain of remote Antarctic islands, thanks to satellite images of their telltale poop.

The formations that give the park its name could vanish as soon as 13 years from now.

Between 1992 and 1996, artist Agnes Denes built a mountain.

You hear the term tossed about, but what does it really mean?

Calling Thunder juxtaposes the sounds of modern New York City with the sounds of the species that once roamed there.

If the holiday season has taught us anything, it’s that you can fit just about anything in a box—including the makings of a two-acre farm.

During the winter, they switch from a 24-hour day governed by sunlight to a 24.8-hour lunar day governed by the phases of the moon.

A genetic analysis of Australia’s feral cats suggest that cats probably made their way to the continent during the period of European exploration.

Hawaii’s Big Island is overrun with a very tiny—and very loud—frog.

Scientists spotted tiny pseudoscorpions stowing away in bat fur in New Zealand.

Can't make it to the Arizona desert? Craig Benzine has you covered.

How exactly did this ethereal-looking tropical fish go from tank to trouble?

Coral reefs are in trouble. On these Pacific reefs, one of the major causes of coral loss is predation by the crown-of-thorns sea star.

2015 marks California’s fourth consecutive year of drought.