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Cool Green Science: 350 practicing scientists helping you get smart about nature. (Curated by @eatguineapigs @ccbyington & @justinehausheer).
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Move over turkey! Meet the world’s other bald, be-wattled birds
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Have you ever actually looked at a turkey? They’re cool, weird, and impressively ugly. But American Wild Turkeys aren’t the only ugly birds out there ⎯ with 10,000 avian species on Earth, the...
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Turn your walk in the woods into a real-life natural history mystery.
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Using clues hidden in the landscape, it’s often possible to figure out what a patch of forest used to look like 100 years ago. Here's how.
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Curious about turkeys? We have a veritable feast of turkey content from our archives.
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We've got your turkey stories right here. A collection of all the turkey (and turkey-adjacent) stories on CGS in one place. You're welcome.
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Using clues hidden in the landscape, it's often possible to figure out what a patch of forest used to look like 100 years ago. Here's how.
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Using clues hidden in the landscape, it’s often possible to figure out what a patch of forest used to look like 100 years ago. Here's how.
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Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about turkeys. Seriously... everything.
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Get ready for a backyard Bioblitz! Here are our tops to be a citizen scientist in your backyard
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A bioblitz is a nature scavenger hunt, for science. Here are our tips to DIY a bioblitz from your very own backyard.
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Nature is full of spooky species, weird science, and sometimes disturbing natural phenomena.
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Spiders, reefs like zombies and ghost bats? Nature is full of spooky species, weird science, and sometimes disturbing natural phenomena.
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Floodplain forests are among the most biologically rich habitats, but they're critically imperiled.
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Floodplain forests are among the most biologically rich habitats. They’re critically imperiled, but not a lost cause.
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Crested rats & hairy porcupines? Meet seven of the world’s coolest rodents.
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Rodents are more interesting than you think. Beautiful, surprising and just downright bizarre. Here are 7 of the world’s coolest.
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People have a penchant for slapping Halloween-style names on creatures that are more cool than creepy.
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People have a penchant for slapping Halloween-style names on creatures that are cooler than they are creepy.
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Bats and snakes get an undeserved bad rap. But here are some creepy crawlies that might keep you up at night.
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Bats and snakes get an undeserved bad rap. But here are some creepy crawlies that might keep you up at night.
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Goblin sharks & ghost-faced bats! Cool critters with creepy names
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People have a penchant for slapping Halloween-style names on creatures that are cooler than they are creepy.
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New science shows that fish-aggregating devices could enhance the effectiveness of blue water MPAs
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Research from TNC’s Palmyra Atoll suggests fish aggregating devices could increase the time mobile species spend within blue water MPAs.
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Get ready for a backyard Bioblitz! Here are our tops to be a citizen scientist in your backyard
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A bioblitz is a nature scavenger hunt, for science. Here are our tips to DIY a bioblitz from your very own backyard.
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Are there mountain lions in New Jersey?
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Sightings of mountain lions abound in the eastern United States. What’s the real story?
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Removing obsolete dams offers dramatic benefits for fish, the economy and the future.
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Removing obsolete freshwater dams often has dramatic and rapid effects—not only for fish, but also for people, the economy and the future.
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A celebration of field guides, the little books that changed the way we interact with nature.
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A celebration of field guides, the little books that changed the way we interact with nature.
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Sightings of mountain lions abound in the eastern United States. What’s the real story?
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Sightings of mountain lions abound in the eastern United States. What’s the real story?
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How to catch a wild dFAD: A small boat, four people, 500 pounds (or more) of rope, netting, floats, rafts and sometimes barnacles. Gloves definitely required.
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A small boat, four people, 500 pounds (or more) of rope, netting, floats, rafts and sometimes barnacles. Gloves definitely required.
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On the flooded grasslands of Colombia, one rancher found a way to have it all. Including burrowing owls.
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On the flooded grasslands of Colombia, one rancher found a way to have it all. Including burrowing owls.
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