quote [ An urban geologist goes to downtown Seattle and finds a rangeof rocks rivaling any assembled by plate tectonics. ]

quote [ Scientists find that elephants who raid farms might be looking for medicinal plants, sparking a cross-species exchange of pharmaceutical knowledge. ]

quote [ For more than 300 years, Italians have fried soft-shell green crabs, called moeche. But the culinary tradition is under threat ]

quote [ The 550-pound black bear has taken up residence in the crawlspace underneath Ken Johnson's home in California for a month. ]

quote [ In the United States, efforts to save a beloved species face pushback from a surprising foe: gun rights advocates. ]

quote [ Cold War nuclear testing left troubling levels of Cesium-137 in caribou, prompting years of research into Arctic fallout and its risks to human health. ]

quote [ When Alaska?s wolves began eating sea otters, it looked like a story of adaptation. Then they started getting sick. ]

quote [ Just as the sun begins to peek over the flat horizon of Coon Rapids, Iowa, 1,383 pigeons fill the sky. The birds pour out as a single winged mass from the rows of flung-open coops on the transport truck. They rise and circle higher into the morning air. Strong gusts from the south-southwest soon scatter them into hundreds of solitary black dots across the slabs of clouds. ]

quote [ Scientists and conservationists in the U.S. Midwest are working to stop industrial herbicides from drifting onto the region?s remaining hardwood trees. ]

quote [ As the planet warms, people are moving?bringing familiar fights to new battlegrounds. ]