How do geese know when to go South in the fall? What signals a seed to sprout when it is brought to the surface after lying for centuries underground? DR. STERLING B. HENDRICKSof the U.S. Department of Agriculture describes his research into the timing mechanism of plants and animals.
Conservationists everywhere have been watching with mounting concern the destruction of wild animals and their habitats in East and Central Africa. Two years ago the New York Zoological Society and the Conservation Foundation sent GEORGE TREICHELto Africa to find out the facts. A biogeographer, specializing in African studies. Mr. Treichel spent fourteen months afield in forty-five major faunal areas south of the Sahara.
The president can still advance his restrictionist agenda—but first he must accept that a large-scale amnesty is the only way to make it a reality.
People taking Ozempic for weight loss say they have also stopped drinking, smoking, shopping, and even nail biting.
Harvard’s Claudine Gay was right that context matters for campus anti-Semitism. It does at the International Court of Justice too.
Somehow, the U.S. is both over- and under-reacting to bird flu and other pressing infectious threats.
An unusual detective story
Creative thinkers often have some unconventional impulses: Immanuel Kant liked being wrapped up like a mummy, and Charles Dickens lived with a bunch of animals.
Published in The Atlantic in 1994
In a supposedly safe national park, poachers have slaughtered 80 percent of these elusive animals in just ten years.