1. First US Field Test of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Begins in Florida. After years of push back, the first batch of Oxitec's engineered mosquitoes, designed to reduce population numbers, have been released in the Keys. (link)
2. Mixing It Up in the Web of Life. Many types of marine plankton are either animal-like or plant-like. But a huge number are both, and they are upending ideas about ocean ecology. (link)
2. Mixing It Up in the Web of Life. Many types of marine plankton are either animal-like or plant-like. But a huge number are both, and they are upending ideas about ocean ecology. (link)
3. Picozoans Are Algae After All. Phylogenomics data place the enigmatic plankton in the middle of the algal family tree, despite their apparent lack of plastids -- an organelle characteristic of all other algae. (link)
4. Opinion: Western Canada Must Stop Clearcutting Its "Mother" Trees. Feeding the world's insatiable appetite for wood products is sacrificing the future of a crucial ecosystem. (link)
5. Book Excerpt from Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard. In the book's introduction, "Connections," Suzanne Simard relates how her "perception of the woods has been turned upside down." (link)
6. Fatal attraction to light at night pummels insects. Summary only; the rest of the article is behind a pay wall. (link)
7. How many Giraffe species are there? A new study suggests four. (link)
8. What is ethical beekeeping and why should we care? An excellent, lengthy discussion of many aspects of beekeeping in relation to other people and other bees. (link)
9. The climate solution actually adding millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. New research shows that California's climate policy created up to 39 million carbon credits that aren't achieving real carbon savings. But companies can buy these forest offsets to justify polluting more anyway. (link)
10. This recommendation comes from Rosemary Woodell. It's an effusive meditation on a new book about hummingbirds, by Sy Mongomery, the author of The Soul of An Octopus. (link)
11. Parasitic plants often share a common structure, the haustorium, that connects them to their host plant. But is it a root? Or a stem? Find out what is known about this structure. (link)
12. Secrets of the dead wood: ancient oaks hold key to new life. (link)
4. Opinion: Western Canada Must Stop Clearcutting Its "Mother" Trees. Feeding the world's insatiable appetite for wood products is sacrificing the future of a crucial ecosystem. (link)
5. Book Excerpt from Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard. In the book's introduction, "Connections," Suzanne Simard relates how her "perception of the woods has been turned upside down." (link)
6. Fatal attraction to light at night pummels insects. Summary only; the rest of the article is behind a pay wall. (link)
7. How many Giraffe species are there? A new study suggests four. (link)
8. What is ethical beekeeping and why should we care? An excellent, lengthy discussion of many aspects of beekeeping in relation to other people and other bees. (link)
9. The climate solution actually adding millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere. New research shows that California's climate policy created up to 39 million carbon credits that aren't achieving real carbon savings. But companies can buy these forest offsets to justify polluting more anyway. (link)
10. This recommendation comes from Rosemary Woodell. It's an effusive meditation on a new book about hummingbirds, by Sy Mongomery, the author of The Soul of An Octopus. (link)
11. Parasitic plants often share a common structure, the haustorium, that connects them to their host plant. But is it a root? Or a stem? Find out what is known about this structure. (link)
12. Secrets of the dead wood: ancient oaks hold key to new life. (link)
