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A cougar kitten with a mule deer in its mouth

Environment

Talk radio puts pumas off their meals so they may kill more deer

The sound of people鈥檚 voices reduces pumas鈥� feeding time and makes them kill more deer, showing the wide-reaching effect of human activity

A stream running through a grassland with a beaver dam across it

Earth

Beaver dams keeps streams cool and protect sensitive fish

A dusky rabbitfish

Environment

Tiny invasive sea creatures hitch a ride in rabbitfish guts

A stuffed thylacine, or Tasmanian tiger

Environment

Odds that Tasmanian tigers are still alive are 1 in 1.6 trillion

Environment

Cleaner fish that keep farmed salmon healthy at risk of wipe-out

Spiders eat more prey than humans

Environment

Spiders eat twice as much animal prey as humans do in a year

Woolly mammoth

Environment

Can we grow woolly mammoths in the lab? George Church hopes so

Boat on dried-up lake floor

Environment

Massive lake drained for hydropower leaves dry bed and no fish

Some of the turfwinkle snails in their natural habitat

Earth

Ocean acidification may be good for thriving marine snails

A close-up of a group of ants and larvae

Environment

Harvester ants farm by planting seeds to eat once they germinate

The ants鈥� unusual trick lets them snack on seeds that are too big from them to crack. They just let the seeds crack themselves

Environment

Australia鈥檚 oldest working scientist speaks about his life

Earth

Baby turtles leave behind fleeting oases on beach dune deserts

Environment

New Zealand is the first country to wipe out invasive butterfly

Environment

Hundreds of deep-sea vents found spewing methane off US coast