Unpredictable Whale Migration Patterns
By Wren Ashby · Published June 16, 2026 · Updated September 2, 2026 Whale migrations are growing less predictable: gray, right, and sperm whales increasingly leave long-established routes, arrive off schedule, or strand far outside their range. Researchers link these shifts to warming seas, collapsing prey, and possible disruption of the animals’ magnetic navigation, though […]
The Sudden Vanishing of Bees: CCD
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 8, 2026 · Updated September 10, 2026 Last updated: September 10, 2026. In the autumn of 2006, a Pennsylvania commercial beekeeper named David Hackenberg trucked roughly 400 colonies of Apis mellifera from the Susquehanna Valley to a wintering yard in central Florida. When he came back to inspect them […]
Mystery of the Monarch Butterfly Migration
By Wren Ashby · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 Last reviewed: May 7, 2026. What Is the Mystery of Monarch Butterfly Migration? The mystery of monarch butterfly migration is that no single butterfly completes the round-trip journey. Each year, a “super-generation” born in late summer flies up to 4,000 kilometers from […]