Simply put: Billions needed to combat desertification

Yellowstone’s solution to its excess bison problem: Capture and send them for slaughter

Park officials will capture 600-900 of the animals this winter and ship them

Negotiations in Montreal Protocol move at a slow pace

Parties start discussion on core challenges in a more focused way

Water’s ways

Study confirms link between rainfall and riverbed erosion

The Monarch’s ways

Art>> Butterfly • Mexico/USA

Life crashed into Earth?

Researchers provide evidence that rocks may have carried microbes across planets

A worthy goal

Soccer>> Homeless • Mexico

Lab on a printout

Adhesive modifies regular paper into diagnostic test kit

Power punch

Bismuth improves storage capacity of iron batteries

Silk route to preservation

Protein in fibre can replace expensive ways to store drugs

Mind your tongue

Language>> public Places • The US

Our own microbe catalogue

First genetic map of the microbes found in a healthy human body

Lincoln’s fake Facebook

Social Network>> History • The US

Mix and match

DNA-RNA hybrid virus may provide clues to virus evolution

Google booked

Google>> Privacy • The US

Bowing to web

Encyclopaedia>> Website • The US

How to curb neuro disorders

Inhibiting a brain enzyme provides protection, says study  

News Snippets

Glossary of an ancient world

Dictionary>> History • Iraq/US

Mummy returned

Museum>> Ethnic Politics • China/US

Headbangers' ball

Cell phone now a lab too

Smells toxic

America thinks

Bad news They have sex