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Underwater Robots Uncover Organic Secret as Heavy as 250 Million Elephants

Underwater Robots Uncover Organic Secret as Heavy as 250 Million Elephants

There’s a hidden world beneath the ocean’s surface—one that weighs more than 250 million elephants. Scientists have uncovered massive stores of phytoplankton deep underwater, invisible to satellites and critical to...

Underwater Robots Uncover Organic Secret as Heavy as 250 Million Elephants

There’s a hidden world beneath the ocean’s surface—one that weighs more than 250 million elephants. Scientists have uncovered massive stores of phytoplankton deep underwater, invisible to satellites and critical to...

Alvinho the Anteater is Teaching Us About His Species, You're Helping

Alvinho the Anteater is Teaching Us About His Species, You're Helping

Giant anteaters are a vulnerable species that has been extirpated from much of their historic range in Central and South America.

Alvinho the Anteater is Teaching Us About His Species, You're Helping

Giant anteaters are a vulnerable species that has been extirpated from much of their historic range in Central and South America.

America's Elephants Are Dying in Silence Behind Zoo Walls

America's Elephants Are Dying in Silence Behind Zoo Walls

They rock back and forth for hours. They cry out in pain no one hears. Their babies die young. You might think zoos protect elephants—but the truth tells a far...

America's Elephants Are Dying in Silence Behind Zoo Walls

They rock back and forth for hours. They cry out in pain no one hears. Their babies die young. You might think zoos protect elephants—but the truth tells a far...

Hungry Wild Elephant Raids Store and Walks Out With Snacks

Hungry Wild Elephant Raids Store and Walks Out With Snacks

What do you do when a 30-year-old wild elephant strolls into your grocery store, helps himself to crackers and bananas, then calmly walks out with a snack in his trunk?...

Hungry Wild Elephant Raids Store and Walks Out With Snacks

What do you do when a 30-year-old wild elephant strolls into your grocery store, helps himself to crackers and bananas, then calmly walks out with a snack in his trunk?...

Lost Dog Flees Foster Home and Swims 100 Miles Before Rescue At Sea

Lost Dog Flees Foster Home and Swims 100 Miles Before Rescue At Sea

She cleared an eight-foot fence. She vanished into the wild. For 36 days, no one could catch her. Then she swam a mile through open water—alone—only to be found clinging...

Lost Dog Flees Foster Home and Swims 100 Miles Before Rescue At Sea

She cleared an eight-foot fence. She vanished into the wild. For 36 days, no one could catch her. Then she swam a mile through open water—alone—only to be found clinging...

Seaweed Forests Are Taking Over Fragile Marine Ecosystems and Changing the Ocean Forever

Seaweed Forests Are Taking Over Fragile Marine Ecosystems and Changing the Ocean Forever

In once-frigid fjords and along warming coastlines, seaweed forests are rapidly expanding. These underwater ecosystems are now reshaping not only local habitats but the very chemistry of the ocean.

Seaweed Forests Are Taking Over Fragile Marine Ecosystems and Changing the Ocean Forever

In once-frigid fjords and along warming coastlines, seaweed forests are rapidly expanding. These underwater ecosystems are now reshaping not only local habitats but the very chemistry of the ocean.