Agricultural pesticide Atrazine poses a serious threat to amphibians

One third of amphibian populations on Planet Earth are threatened with extinction. A new study finds that atrazine, the second most widely used farm pesticide in the country, is partly responsible for this decline. Glad I’m not an amphibian!

Coping with the Shrinking Aral Sea

In less than 40 years the Aral has shrunk into two salt lakes, known variously as the Big, or South, Aral and the Small, or North, Aral and a new desert called the Aralkum. On the shores of what was once the world’s fourth-largest inland body of water, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan are trying different solutions.