OnEarth Magazine: Subscribe | Current Issue
Your OnEarth: Login / Register

Search

DON'T MISS:
Groundbreaking journalism needs your support
SUBSCRIBE TODAY and enjoy a special introductory offer: A full year for just $15!

Dreamboat

Royal Caribbean's new "green" mega-liner still burns the world's dirtiest fuel. Can the cruise industry clean up its act? Table of Contents | Digital Edition
Guardian Environmental Network

Department: species watch

A Fishy Case of Mistaken Identity
By Kim Tingley | Species Watch
April 16, 2012: The scalloped hammerhead has a doppelganger. So what was once a single threatened species is now two -- and both are worse off than we thought. (0) Comments
An Old Grass and the Sea
By Kim Tingley | Species Watch
March 22, 2012: A hearty slow-growing seagrass that blankets the floor of the Mediterranean was able to withstand the last ice age. But can it survive climate change? (0) Comments
Reefs Rife with Disease
By Kim Tingley | Species Watch
February 2, 2012: Human waste is running offshore in the Caribbean and infecting elkhorn coral -- critical habitat for other sea creatures -- with one bad bug. (3) Comments
Gender Bending in the Rockies
By Kim Tingley | Species Watch
January 17, 2012: Too many brothers mean big trouble for female marmots. They don’t tease her or pull hair, but they could ruin her future family life. (0) Comments
Little Body, Big Sound
By Kim Tingley | Species Watch
January 3, 2012: It’s only 2 millimeters long, but this insect’s mating call can compete with the roar of a lawnmower. Engineers are seeking its sonorous secret. (0) Comments
Slow and Steady Wins ... a Second Chance
By Kim Tingley | Species Watch
December 21, 2011: On an island in the Indian Ocean, exotic tortoises fill in for long-gone natives and give dwindling ebony trees a chance to make a comeback. (0) Comments
Hawaii's Marine Homebodies
By Kim Tingley | Species Watch
September 1, 2011: A special group of false killer whales has got our backs. Why we should have theirs. (0) Comments
Thin-Skinned
By Kim Tingley | Species Watch
August 9, 2011: They’re ugly. They ooze slime. Their digestive systems are partially on the outside. They creep along the seafloor and eat sunken whale corpses. And hagfish could represent the transitional form to vertebrate species like our own. (2) Comments
The Secret Minds of Bees
By Kim Tingley | Species Watch
July 29, 2011: As honeybees continue to desert their hives and die in large numbers, new research suggests that the insects may respond to stress in ways that seem an awful lot like humans do. (12) Comments
Worms Do It
By Kim Tingley | Species Watch
July 5, 2011: This conveniently transparent flatworm species engages in some particularly kinky reproductive practices (by human standards, at least). (0) Comments