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North America's 'Largest Wildlife Overpass' is Finally Complete Every day, more than 100,000 vehicles travel up and down Interstate 25, a freeway that connects major cities in Colorado, Wyoming, and New Mexico. The six-lane highway is also a cruc...
Earth's Freshwater Fish Face Harsh New Climate Challenges Southeast Asia's Mekong River is one of the world's most diverse and productive freshwater ecosystems, home to more than 1,000 fish species, including both the critically endangered Mekong...
Italy's Bears Are Showing Genetic Signs of Domestication Humans have turned many wild animals into pets and livestock over time, from wolves to dogs and wildcats to housecats. Now, scientists have found evidence of domestication in the chromosome...
A Grassroots Group of Women Mapped Air Pollution in Their Indian Village In the village of Jarangdih in Jharkhand, India, the first sound residents hear each morning is the whirring of heavy machinery from nearby coal mines. By afternoon, the air...
Rare Polar Bear Adoption Could Save Cub's Life Scientists in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada (known as the polar bear capital of the world) have confirmed that a wild female polar bear has adopted a cub that is not her own. This rare behavior was cap...
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A study published in Nature Reviews Biodiversity in September describes the extensive environmental toll of mining for minerals needed for a transition to green energy. The direct, site-level impacts are well known — deforestation, soil degradation...
Deep in a sea cave in Greece's northern Sporades, a bulky shape moves in the gloom. It's a huge Mediterranean monk seal, one of the world's rarest marine mammals. Piperi, where the seal has come ashore, is a strictly guarded island in the National Ma...
In Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, the Orangutan Information Centre (OIC) is working to rehabilitate orangutans who have been confiscated from the illegal wildlife trade. These orphaned orangutans are learning the essential skills they need to survive i...
Nearly 900 acres of ancestral territory have been officially returned to the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation, marking a major milestone in Indigenous land restoration efforts in California. The property, which borders Yosemite National Park and the Sier...
What Frost in Ooty and Cold Nights in Chennai Tell Us About India's Winter From frost-covered mornings in Ooty to rare cold nights in Chennai and Shillong, Frost and Chill Across India Imagine waking up to sparkling frost on your balcony gra...
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Icons of winter are sometimes found in unexpected places. In one striking example, a series of oval lagoons in a remote part of Siberia forms the shape of a towering snowman when viewed from above. This image, centered on the remote village of Billi...
The Tingana Conservation Concession sits in the center of a unique wetland in the Alto Mayo Basin, the highest swamp in Peru with Amazonian characteristics. In its flooded forest, native moriche palms (Mauritia flexuosa, known in Peru as aguaje) an...
Women Sow Seeds, Restore Forests in Guinea, the 'Water Tower of West Africa' In January 2022, Mariame Condé was pregnant and nearly out of food when she collected 20,000 Carapa procera tree seeds around her hometown in Kofilakoro, Guinea. The pro...
Restoration efforts in Brazil's Atlantic Forest are finding success on private lands, according to a newly published study. Researchers evaluated the Atlantic Forest Restoration Pact, a collaborative initiative launched in 2009 to accelerate reforest...
'Living Rocks' Suck Up a Lot of Carbon Among the remarkable flora and fauna in South Africa are "living rocks" called microbialites. These communities are similar to coral reefs and are built up by microbes that absorb and release dissolved miner...
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Dinosaur Footprints Discovered in Stelvio National Park Thousands of dinosaur footprints dating back 210 million years have been found in Stelvio national park in northern Italy. The footprints, some up to 40cm (15in) in diameter, are aligned in ...
Believed to be malevolent to people, goblins are usually not the characters one roots for. That's why their name is often used to describe other creatures being naughty, too; that (goblin) cat stealing the spaghetti you made for dinner, for instance....
Following the path of the tiger isn't easy. Yet the three rangers, clad in camouflage, move lithely through the steep bamboo thicket, tracking the muddy hoofprints of a sambar deer. Out of the snagging vines, they emerge on a forested ridgeline overl...
Across many parts of Africa's Atlantic coastline, the sea is advancing several metres inland each year, destroying homes, infrastructure, farmland and heritage sites. Many coastal communities have already been erased from the map. Several factors c...
Mine-grown Moss Shows Unusual Power to Trap Toxic Metals from Water Toxic metals are seeping into northern waterways at a faster pace as climate change alters soils and drainage patterns. In Finland, researchers now say an unlikely ally may help ...
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Cameroon, a nation of roughly 30 million people and over 300 indigenous languages, faces an uncertain future for its linguistic diversity. A long-lasting civil war and other humanitarian crises have triggered concerns about language attrition in the ...
Seafloor Survey Finds Anti-Trawling Blocks Aid Seagrass Recovery in Cambodia A recent study has provided the first detailed map of Cambodia's coastal seafloor habitats, revealing that simple, low-cost anti-trawling structures are helping seagrass...
From Kalimantan's Haze to Jakarta's Grit: A Journalist's Journey Sapariah "Arie" Saturi, the managing editor of Mongabay Indonesia, has experienced Indonesia's environmental challenges firsthand. Growing up along the Kapuas River in West Kalimant...
'I consider him my first son': how living with a baby monkey taught me I'm ready to be a dad In 2022, Yannis had a job at an estate agents in Paris selling expensive flats, but he decided he needed to do something more meaningful with his life. H...
The previous informal record had been set during an event in Vancouver last year, which brought together 1,685 goldens. Gathering for a World Record More than 2,000 golden retrievers in bandanas, baseball hats, bows and at least one Lionel Mess...
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In the mobile game "Hay Day," players can build farms and barns, fish, and raise crops — similar to cozy games like "Stardew Valley" and "Animal Crossing." And from December 15 through December 24, users can also find and pet (or rather, tap) virtual...
Artisanal Fishers in Liberia Question Benefits of New Tracking Devices In Liberia, a country where small-scale fishers number in the tens of thousands, fishers go missing at sea every year. Some, like a crew of four rescued 54 nautical miles (100...
In many mammals, females are receptive to mating only when ovulating, which gives males a clear window to maximize reproductive success. Bonobos (Pan paniscus) differ from this pattern because females remain sexually receptive for long periods and ...
Sumatra's 'Natural' Disaster Wasn't Natural Indonesia's government has been at pains to stress that the recent catastrophe in Sumatra was triggered by a rare meteorological event. Cyclone Senyar formed in the Malacca Strait, an area where the nat...
Scientists have found that microplastics drifting through rivers, lakes, and oceans steadily release a wide range of dissolved organic chemicals into the water. These chemicals change over time, with sunlight playing a major role in how they form and...
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Orcas and Dolphins Collaborate in Unprecedented Hunt For the first time ever, orcas and dolphins were filmed working together to hunt salmon off the coast of British Columbia, according to a new study published in Scientific Reports. The partn...
Pumpkin Toadlet Discovered in Brazil's Cloud Forests In the misty cloud forests of Brazil, scientists have discovered a new species of miniature frog known as the "pumpkin toadlet." This tiny amphibian, formally named Brachycephalus lulai, is rou...
New Fossils in Qatar Reveal Tiny Sea Cow Hidden for 21 Million Years The findings, published December 10 in the journal PeerJ, come from a partnership between scientists at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and Qatar Museums....
Illegal Waste Dumping Plagues UK Communities The Environment Agency (EA) has announced it will spend millions of pounds to clear an enormous illegal rubbish dump in Oxfordshire, citing the risk of the waste catching fire. However, this decision h...
Imagine floating towers teeming with lush greenery that look out over clean waterways overflowing with wildlife. As you glance down, you realize pedestrians outnumber cars — which fly on renewable energy — and people mill about in community gardens a...
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In the Stone Age, Neolithic folks used willow branches and mud to build roundhouses for their families. Jump forward several thousand years and European farmers were fashioning panels of stitched willow, called hurdles, to fence their farms or screen...
A Week in Wildlife: Surprises, Rescues, and Coexistence Unexpected Encounters In Altadena, California, a homeowner discovered an unexpected visitor - a large bear had made itself comfortable in the crawlspace of his home. "We call him 'unbea...
Kelp-Based Clothing: A Sustainable Fashion Solution The fashion industry has long relied on plastic-based materials, with approximately 60% of all fashion materials made from plastic, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. These s...
Recovering Sunflower Sea Stars by Freezing Their Larvae A Deadly Pathogen Decimates an Ecosystem Keystone Ravaged by an infectious bacteria, sunflower sea stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides) literally wasted away across the Pacific coast of N...
Elephant Seals Recognize Rival Voices Elephant seals spend most of their lives at sea, returning to shore just twice every year to molt and breed. The breeding season typically includes males weighing thousands of kilograms violently clashing wit...