Science Writer
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Nature Doesn’t Hurt Farmers, It Helps
If removing habitat from farms doesn’t improve food safety, are other practices equally as ineffective, or worse, potentially damaging to farmers? A new study says yes.
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Unraveling the Mystery of the Western Sycamores that Weren’t
The problem? As trees in some of their restoration sites grew to maturity, they didn’t look like the native western sycamores the scientists were sure they had planted.
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7 Resources for Natural History Nerds
Want to identify that feather you found on a hike? Or find out what kind of tracks a hermit crab leaves along a beach? These links can help you do that, and more.
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Adventures in Alternative Energy: Giant Clam Edition
The world's largest clams may well hold the missing link to large-scale production of clean biofuels from algae.
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The Path to Sustainable Fisheries is Paved with Data
The SNAPP Data-Limited Fisheries Working Group is field testing a user friendly application that puts management and science-based sustainability within the reach of small-scale and data-limited fisheries.
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The Verdict is In: We Can Grow Safe Food and Conserve Nature at the Same Time
A new paper by Conservancy NatureNet Science Fellow and lead author Daniel Karp shows that removing habitat around farm fields does not make food safer. In fact, it may have the opposite effect.
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There are No Shortcuts to Birding Nirvana
Our newbie birder learns valuable lessons about taking road directions from birders and how to appreciate the hidden values of power line clearings.
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The Hidden Hazards of Learning to Bird
The latest in the Zero to Hero: Birding series where -- among other things -- our newbie birder discovers that not everyone automatically assumes she's using those binoculars for birding.
