Syria is not the all-desert country most people picture. The trees of Syria grow in four fairly distinct belts: pine, fir and cedar forest on the western mountains, oak woodland…
TLDR Contents Why invasive species in Vermont are a bigger problem than they look An invasive species isn’t just a non-native one. Plenty of non-native plants sit quietly in gardens…
The animals of Ghana split cleanly by geography. The savanna in the north, centered on Mole National Park, has elephants, buffalo, antelopes and baboons. The rainforest in the south, around…
Table of Contents TLDR How many reptiles live in Iran? The answer is about 241 species, according to the Annotated Checklist of Amphibians and Reptiles of Iran, the most cited…
Italy’s native animals are the species that reached the peninsula on their own, or evolved there, before people started moving wildlife around. That’s a shorter list than most “animals of…
Laos grows fruit on a three-season clock, and the fruit you find depends almost entirely on the month. Mango and jackfruit arrive in the hot season, lychee, longan and rambutan…
TLDR Most eight-legged animals are arachnids: spiders, scorpions, ticks, mites, harvestmen, camel spiders, vinegaroons and pseudoscorpions. Two outsiders also have eight legs and aren’t arachnids at all: sea spiders and…
Fireflies don’t leave your yard because they’re picky. They leave because the lights stay on, the leaf litter gets bagged, and something gets sprayed on the lawn every few weeks….
TLDR Contents Huge means four different things Ask “what’s the biggest tree in the world” and you’ll get three or four different answers, all correct. A tree can win on…