Donate

Physiology

Small brown bat

A bat-killing disease is even more destructive than previously thought

Environment

White-nose syndrome has killed over 5 million bats in North America since 2008, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service. A new study has allowed researchers to map the progression of the disease — but that knowledge may not be enough to slow it down.

Animals adopt varying techniques to get through long days of winter

Environment

Big Advances in Testing Chemicals

Do Pesticides Alter Hormones?

Animal Winter Behavior, With Zoologist Donna Fernandes

ECOtime

An audio remedy for nature-deficiency syndrome.

ECOtime

An audio remedy for nature-deficit syndrome.

The World

Animal Note/Wake-up Call

Living on Earth’s Maggie Villiger reports on new research on the chemical ways fruit flies can influence one another’s circadian clocks.

Hormones in the Environment

Steroids and hormones used to treat livestock are passing through the animals and into the environment. Science News senior editor Janet Raloff discusses concerns that they may be damaging the development of fish and other animals.

The World

Saving Bat Habitat

In a National Geographic Radio Expedition, NPR’s, Christopher Joyce reports on efforts to prevent some abandoned mines in Michigan’s upper peninsula from being filled in after thousands of bats were discovered hibernating in them.