2011-12-05T08:00:00Z John Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and creative biologists, here offers a completely new perspective on the role of size in biology. In his hallmark friendly style, he explores the universal impact of being the right size. By examining stories ranging from Alice in Wonderland to Gulliver's Travels, he shows that humans have always been fascinated by th...[Read More]
2017-12-18T08:00:00Z Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of population and community ecology--such as birth-death processes, species interactions, selection, and stochasticity--with larger-scale issues such as dispersal and habitat heterogeneity. Until now, the field has focused on evaluating the relative importance of distinct processes, wi...[Read More]
2021-04-27T07:00:00Z "A sublime chronicle of our planet." -Booklist, STARRED review
A primer for every Earth resident, by Harvard's acclaimed geologist
How well do you know the ground beneath your feet?
Odds are, where you're standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby mete...[Read More]
2011-09-02T07:00:00Z No other single volume reference to the Jehol site and its fossils exists and nowhere is there such a collection of fine photos of the fossils concerned. This book has pieced together the most up-to-date information on the Jehol Biota, a place that has shown the world some of the most astonishing fossil finds including the first complete skeleton of Archaeopteryx in...[Read More]
2009-03-31T07:00:00Z In The Medea Hypothesis, renowned paleontologist Peter Ward proposes a revolutionary and provocative vision of life's relationship with the Earth's biosphere--one that has frightening implications for our future, yet also offers hope. Using the latest discoveries from the geological record, he argues that life might be its own worst enemy. This stands in star...[Read More]
2012-04-29T07:00:00Z The mysterious and remarkable ways that animals navigate
We know that animals cross miles of water, land, and sky with pinpoint precision on a daily basis. But it is only in recent years that scientists have learned how these astounding feats of navigation are actually accomplished. With colorful and thorough detail, Nature's Compass explore...[Read More]
This film investigates the future of the world's water, and paints a disturbing picture of a world running out of the most basic of life's essentials. 8 year old Vanessa ...
There's a game of Tetris happening on a global scale: The playing space is planet Earth, and all those pesky, stacking blocks represent carbon dioxide -- a ...
Many call climate change the defining crisis of our time. In Texas, where we live, climate change is making heatwaves hotter, hurricanes stronger and droughts ...
Actor Blake Vilanti (Beck Bennett) teams up with Dr. Robert Khan (Kumail Nanjiani) to save the earth. #SNL #SNL43 Subscribe to SNL: https://goo.gl/tUsXwM ...
"There is no Planet B." Credits: https://www.buzzfeed.com/bfmp/videos/68964 Check out more awesome videos at BuzzFeedVideo! https://bit.ly/YTbuzzfeedvideo ...
Ice is white and bright and is able to reflect solar energy back into space. When it melts and exposes dark, open ocean, that open ocean absorbs more sunlight ...
