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22 August 2000 | ScienceNOW

Pisces Swingers Bear Better Babies

by R. John Davenport

Female guppies benefit from mating with many males

18 August 2000 | ScienceNOW

Hunting a Lobster Killer

by John S. MacNeil

Researchers search cause of massive die-off in Long Island Sound

16 August 2000 | ScienceNOW

Easy Life Makes for Dull Fish

by Mari N. Jensen

Hatchery-raised trout have fewer challenges, smaller brains

14 August 2000 | ScienceNOW

Bio-Inventory in Oz

by Elizabeth Finkel

Ecological strike team catalogs life on western shore

14 August 2000 | ScienceNOW

Listening to Fish Ears

by Mari N. Jensen

Ear bones' chemical composition reveals complex migration patterns

11 August 2000 | ScienceNOW

Rockies' Rodents Sleep In

by Mari N. Jensen

Two species in Colorado are hibernating much longer than they were 25 years ago

10 August 2000 | ScienceNOW

Crime-Fighting Bugs

by Erik Stokstad

Itching to learn about forensic entomology? This site is for you.

9 August 2000 | ScienceNOW

Horseshoe Crab Sanctuary Proposed

by Erik Stokstad

Protected area off Delaware Bay would safeguard a population at risk

9 August 2000 | ScienceNOW

Breeze Keeps Trees Apart

by Mari N. Jensen

Wind damage may prevent tree canopies from growing close together

8 August 2000 | ScienceNOW

Worm Front Threatens Forests

by Mari N. Jensen

European imports are plowing down seedlings and plants in North America

8 August 2000 | ScienceNOW

Culprit Named in "Sudden Oak Death"

by Marcia Barinaga

A fungus is killing the beloved oaks along California's coast

7 August 2000 | ScienceNOW

Hybridizing With the Enemy

by Mari N. Jensen

Exotic grass species takes over by mating with California native

28 July 2000 | ScienceNOW

Gulf's Dead Zone Is Shrinking

by David Malakoff

Drought in Mississippi Basin reduces nutient flow and algal blooms

20 July 2000 | ScienceNOW

His-and-Hers Hummingbird Bills

by Kathryn Brown

Sexual dimorphism allows them to specialize in different flowers

14 July 2000 | ScienceNOW

New Mercury Report Supports Stringent Safety Levels

by Jocelyn Kaiser

But some scientists dispute conclusion that even low levels are harmful

12 July 2000 | ScienceNOW

Killer Algae May Have Reached California

by Jocelyn Kaiser

Radical action planned to avert ecological disaster

23 June 2000 | ScienceNOW

Reviving the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone

by David Malakoff

A long-awaited White House plan to shrink the Gulf of Mexico's "dead zone" calls for major cuts in river-borne nutrients and more funds to create pollution-trapping wetlands and streamside buffers....

15 June 2000 | ScienceNOW

El Niño Punishes Migratory Birds

by Ayala Ochert

The population of a migratory bird species drops dramatically whenever El Niño, everybody's favorite source of strange weather, raises its head. If the population of endangered species fluctuates the same...

14 June 2000 | ScienceNOW

Biological Clock Ticks Louder When Bees Take on Regular Work Hours

by Elizabeth Norton Lasley

Life's not fair in a beehive. Younger bees get to hang out with the honey, while older ones must fly out and forage for nectar. Now a study shows that...

14 June 2000 | ScienceNOW

Web Site Keeps Up With a Changing World

by Science News Staff

Atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide belched out by cars and power plants soar, while amphibian populations plummet and glaciers dwindle like an ice cube in your palm. These are just...

9 June 2000 | ScienceNOW

Making Forest Conservation Pay Off

by Dana Mackenzie

For developing countries, conservation doesn't pay. A study published in the 9 June issue of Science concludes that forest conservation provides net economic benefits for local communities and for the...

1 June 2000 | ScienceNOW

Biodiversity May Mean Less Lyme Disease

by Mari N. Jensen

People who value biodiversity often point to the potential for new medicinals or an ecosystem's greater ability to recover quickly from a disaster. Now researchers have found a specific health...

31 May 2000 | ScienceNOW

Grizzlies: Shed and Be Counted

by Jocelyn Kaiser

DNA samples taken from grizzly bear hair may help resolve a bitter dispute over the size of the bear population in and around Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park. Last month, federal...

30 May 2000 | ScienceNOW

Census to Tally Marine Life

by David Malakoff

An ambitious plan to census all the critters in the world's oceans is proceeding swimmingly, thanks to an award announced last week. The $3.7 million, distributed among eight research teams,...

26 May 2000 | ScienceNOW

A Big Week for Sea Life

by David Malakoff

A wave of good news lifted marine conservation and research this week. President Clinton today ordered federal agencies to develop a new network of marine reserves along U.S. coasts. The...

26 May 2000 | ScienceNOW

In the Jungle, the Clumpy Jungle

by Menno Schilthuizen

Nineteenth century naturalist and adventurer Alfred Russel Wallace noted how hard it is to find two trees of the same species in a tropical rainforest. Ever since, conventional wisdom among...

22 May 2000 | ScienceNOW

Three Nations Launch Air Pollution Study

by Michael Baker

SEOUL--Pollution from China's booming industrial northeast has long rained down on its richer neighbors, South Korea and Japan, damaging ecosystems and degrading public health. Now scientists from all three countries...

12 May 2000 | ScienceNOW

Male Chimps Just Want to Eat in Peace

by Dan Ferber

LISLE, ILLINOIS--It's not quite a candlelight dinner, but a shared meal of monkey meat was long thought to be a prelude for sex among chimpanzees. Now, new research shows that...

11 May 2000 | ScienceNOW

Orangutan Populations Plummeting

by Dan Ferber

LISLE, ILLINOIS--Wild orangutan populations have crashed by half in the last 7 years, according to a new estimate presented here today at an international ape research meeting. Experts say orangutans...

4 May 2000 | ScienceNOW

Love Stinks: The Bees and the Beetles

by Adrian Cho

"She was a looker, but she was no lady!" Such might be the lament of deceived male bees in the Mojave Desert, where entomologists have found that larvae of a...

1 May 2000 | ScienceNOW

New Monkeys Hint at Amazon Biodiversity

by Constance Holden

Two new species of marmosets, squirrel-sized New World monkeys, have been identified in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon. The brightly colored animals came to scientific attention only because they...

25 April 2000 | ScienceNOW

U.N. to Blame Global Warming on Humans

by Richard A. Kerr

Global warming has stirred up political and scientific debate between those who blame humans for the heat and those who point to natural causes. After testing alternative explanations, a United...

25 April 2000 | ScienceNOW

Wanted, Dead or Alive: Killer Algae

by Mitch Leslie

What may look from the air like a blazing oil slick can turn out to be a kilometers-long carpet of marine algae, their luminous bodies setting the ocean aglow. These...

20 April 2000 | ScienceNOW

Wasps Seek Safety in Numbers

by Menno Schilthuizen

The family life of many wasp species is stable, highly organized, and utterly strange. Only the queen procreates, while chaste female kin seem content to look after her little ones....

13 April 2000 | ScienceNOW

Amphibian Census Confirms Worldwide Decline

by Dana Mackenzie

The last 4 decades have not been good to frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders. According to the first worldwide study of amphibian populations, published in the 13 April Nature, their...

6 April 2000 | ScienceNOW

Monkeys Know It's Smart to Share

by Dana Mackenzie

Capuchin monkeys have a skill previously seen only in chimpanzees and humans: They know how to share. One capuchin monkey will help another get food, and in return the second...

4 April 2000 | ScienceNOW

Bringing Science to the National Parks

by Jocelyn Kaiser

The U.S. National Park Service (NPS) has been criticized for neglecting the science necessary for good land management. A new plan aims to bolster research in the parks, by investing...

3 April 2000 | ScienceNOW

And Now, the Birdcast

by Jocelyn Kaiser

Passing almost unnoticed in the night, billions of birds will fly over the mid-Atlantic states this spring on their annual migration northward. A new Web site will help ornithologists pinpoint...

3 April 2000 | ScienceNOW

Jaywalking Threatens Imperiled Species

by Mari N. Jensen

Although the roadside sight of flattened fauna is familiar enough, few scientists have documented road kill's effect on populations of animals. Now researchers report that for a group of threatened...

30 March 2000 | ScienceNOW

War in Congo Threatens Great Apes

by Gretchen Vogel

Great apes are being hit hard in the war that has gripped the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for the past 18 months. The front lines cut through the heart...

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