Articles by

Jude Coleman

‘In Botanical Time’ explores the ways Earth’s oldest plants cheat death

In Botanical TimeChristopher WoodsChelsea Green, $40.00 On a talus-strewn slope in eastern California’s mountains, a gnarled...

Recycled glass could help fend off coastal erosion

In the 1960s, saltwater intrusion in a southeast Louisiana swamp killed the trees and plants that lived...

Warm autumns could be a driver in monarch butterflies’ decline

Toastier fall weather might cause migrating monarch butterflies to wing it and change their flight plans, starting...

Here’s how we might generate electricity from rain

A new way of generating clean power could run your lights with rain.  Hydropower typically relies on...

How insects can help catch rhino poachers

In 1988, police officers in Australia came for Ian Dadour. Not because the entomologist was under arrest,...