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New Zealand plans to get rid of rats, possums, and other invasive mammals. The country hopes to save native birds. Rats are not many people’s favorite animal. But most people have to learn to live with them. Not in New…
Vultures play an important role in ecosystems. With vulture populations dropping fast, researchers are racing to save these strange birds. Vultures are often seen as scary creatures. Their bald heads, huge wings, hooked beaks, and long necks make the birds…
TIME’s space writer spent 24 hours inside a NASA base in Hawaii. The base copies conditions on the Red Planet. I came to a lava tube at the end of a 10-minute walk from my Martian habitat. At the top…
Thanks to government protections, grizzly bears have bounced back from near-extinction. But can they survive in the wild without help? Grizzly bears have all but disappeared from the continental United States (see map). But they are making a comeback in…
It was June 6, 1989, and President George H.W. Bush had just stopped elephant ivory from coming into the United States. A wildlife inspector spotted a shipment of 200 ivory buttons. The person shipping them said they came from the…
