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Erica Gies writes of the long-buried riverbeds that may transfer and take in extra stormwater, storing it for future droughts.
“I’ve been questioning for some time now concerning the labels we placed on vegetation and animals discovered ‘misplaced’ in what more and more looks as if an out-of-place world,” writes Mukta Patil.
“The time is ripe for biologists to unravel the variety, ecology, and pure historical past of land flatworms,” one scientist writes. Don’t miss the drama that unfolds inside a single particular person, in author Robin Agarwal’s accompanying video: a Hamlet writ very small.
Head newt coach Susan Gale is anticipating an enormous night time. “It simply feels newty,” she says. On nights like these, volunteers can depend 100 newts in a two-hour shift. Emily Moskal writes.
Jacquelyn Ross, who’s Coast Miwok and Southern Pomo, writes of abalone’s significance and its hopeful future. “One has to see a child abalone shell to understand the surprise of the abalone reaching maturity in any respect. … As new beings, they’re so tender. The shells of those that die in infancy are wee ovals, little petals of shimmer that float in and catch on the sand on the tidal edge.”
Ask the Naturalist’s Michael Ellis kinds us out on this longstanding problem of significance.
This clam makes its mark on the world on the fee of 1 millimeter per 30 days. Guananí Gómez-Van Cortright investigates, on the seaside.
Get all of your acorn questions answered. Then print out our attractive and helpful acorn area information to your subsequent hike.
Professional tip: You don’t need to go far, nevertheless it helps to spend all of your spare time within the woods. Vishal Subramanyan’s wildlife photographs from the East Bay have been the toast of our Instagram account this yr.
