Vietnam's Appetite For Rhino Horn Drives Poaching In Africa
NPR | May 13, 2013 5:32 p.m.
Many believe that wildly expensive ground rhino horn can cure everything from hangovers to cancer.
For Year-Round Buzz, Beekeepers 'Fast-Forward Darwinism'
NPR | May 12, 2013 3:51 p.m.
A group in Plympton, Mass., is breeding honeybees to make them more climate- and disease-resistant.
Rhino Horns Fuel Deadly, Intercontinental Trade
NPR | May 12, 2013 3:55 a.m.
NPR's Frank Langfitt and Gregory Warner have teamed up for a series about how myth and money are driving extraordinary slaughter of rhinos. They talk with host Rachel Martin about the issue, which has repercussions from the African continent all the way to Asia.
To Count Elephants In The Forest, Watch Where You Step
NPR | May 11, 2013 8:37 a.m.
To track how elephants were faring, a conservationist in the 1980s started to count their poop.
Moths That Drive Cars (Really)
NPR | May 09, 2013 7:07 a.m.
What happens when you put a male moth in the driver's seat of a robot, then blow pheromones at it?
Wildlife That Isn't Wild And Isn't Alive
NPR | May 08, 2013 11:33 a.m.
Wow, what a lovely flock of birds! Oh. Those aren't birds. They're robots.
Bee Deaths May Have Reached A Crisis Point For Crops
NPR | May 07, 2013 7:56 p.m.
There may not be enough honeybees left in the U.S. to pollinate some major crops.
This Bat Knows How To Drink
NPR | May 07, 2013 12:15 p.m.
Special hairs turn the Pallas's bat's tongue into a very long, nectar-slurping mop.
Parents Warned After Cougar Reported In Lake Oswego
OPB | May 06, 2013 12:48 p.m.
The Lake Oswego Police Department says it's received several reports Monday from people who say they saw a cougar in the area of Lakeridge Junior High School.
He Helped Discover Evolution, And Then Became Extinct
NPR | May 06, 2013 12:27 p.m.
Sulawesi, and its unique fauna, helped Alfred Russel Wallace form the theory of natural selection.
