Meet the Argo floats, thousands of small buoys across the world’s oceans that send us intel on sea conditions. And meet the other Argo.
Author Archives: Brendan Buhler
Brendan Buhler is a recovering arachnophobe and co-author of Follow Your Gut: The Enormous Impact of Tiny Microbes (2015). He lives in Petaluma and is also a full-time amateur biologist studying the eating habits of toddlers.
Winter Issue 2019
There Are So Many Scorpions
And the Bay Area’s most common species is smaller than your pinkie, has a sting milder than a honeybee’s, is so shy it only hunts on moonless nights and even then is most often seen running away
Fall Issue 2017
A Tale of Two Buzzwords: Trying to Sustain Our Resilience
How did resilient become the ecological buzzword d’jour?
Winter Issue 2016
What Lurks Beneath
A small research team sets out in the search for a potential ocean killer. But in this unusual year, nature is not cooperating with her interrogators.
Winter Issue 2014
What Are the Strengths of the World’s Most Successful Invasive Ant?
Argentine ants are much less aggressive toward other Argentine ants than they are toward other species. They share information, resources, and trails; they are so cooperative with each other they appear to function as a single colony, with many queens and many nests.
