Experimental Musings

We often talk about plants and trees because they are simply that important! They all matter, the small ones to the big ones. Right now scientists are looking at the biggest one.

As our population grows, we will need more and more places for us humans to do our human things. This means, as we grow, we tend to convert natural spaces into developed areas. An urban environment is quite different from a natural landscape and thus has its own variables and concerns.

Being so vital to life it makes perfect sense that there are many research papers and breaking news stories about trees.

If you have not heard the news, there’s a lot of hurricane activity going on these days. Florence is the current major storm causing all kinds of headlines.

What insect is about as old as the dinosaurs, lives on every non-frozen continent, and might be able to tell us about how species could adapt to our planet’s changing climate? Let’s talk about those little social creatures: ants.