Ecology

Dr. Elizabeth D. Hilborn is a veterinarian, a honeybee specialist, and a senior environmental health scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She jois us to talk about her new book, Restoring Eden: Unearthing the Agribusiness Secret That Poisoned My Farm Community.

New research from Utah State University says Pando, an aspen grove in Utah that’s been named the world’s largest organism, is at risk.

Fruits are vital but did you know their main purpose is to disperse seeds? Researchers from Virginia Tech and Utah State University speak about the ecological mysteries of plants, their fruits and the chemicals they produce to spread seeds.

Studying flowers can teach us a surprising amount about how species in ecological communities interact.Tad Fukami is a professor of biology at Stanford…

Stopping the decimation of rainforests is unquestionably important to slowing climate change. But simply protecting forests often excludes and…

We’re talking about fires and fossils, sea butterflies and stonehenge, and parasitic plants and saving the planet — well, saving ourselves, anyway. Our…

We can’t save every plant and animal that we’ve put into danger. But we know from experience that we can have a big effect on the ones we choose to…

This week on Undisciplined, we’re talking about the impact of sports on human behavior and impact of chaos on plants, with guests whose fields couldn’t be…

This week on UnDisciplined, we're talking about risk and, as we like to do, we're coming to that idea from two very different directions. One of our…

This week on UnDisciplined, we're talking to a researcher who's demonstrated that some insects may actually benefit from pesticides. Then, we'll chat with…