The Outside Story: The perils of migration
One morning in early autumn, I was running errands in downtown Keene, N.H., when I was stopped in my tracks by a flash of yellow.
The Outside Story: ‘Resurrection ecologists’ view daphnia as living time capsules
At this very moment, nestled into the sediment at the bottom of your nearest lake or pond, are Daphnia eggs – as many as 100,000 per square meter, according to one Michigan study.
The Outside Story: New England’s only lizard, the five-lined skink
New England is home to dozens of species of mammals, hundreds of varieties of birds, and tens of thousands of different insects, but only one lizard: the five-lined skink.