Every day, people protect what matters. These are their stories.
At Maple Farm, nature is returning in droves: nightingales, grass snakes, slowworms, bats and insects. All due to the vision of a group determined to accelerate its recovery The manically melodic song of the nightingale is a rare sound in Britain these days, but not at Maple Farm. Four years ago, a ...
Puffins have returned to the Isle of Muck in Scotland after decades, offering hope for seabird revival. This triumphant return follows years of determined restoration work, including the removal of invasive brown rats and the introduction of winter grazing.
With fewer than 50,000 Asian elephants estimated to be remaining in the wild, the Smithsonian’s announcement gives hope to those working to preserve the endangered species...
BELÉM, Brazil — Brazil’s big climate finance bet, the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF), attracted $6.7 billion in sponsor capital at COP30, below the $25 billion initially required to roll out the initiative at full scale. Global North countries have been hesitant to commit funds, often alle...
Data centers are notoriously thirsty. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found that, in 2023, the facilities consumed roughly 17 billion gallons of water for their operations in the U.S. alone. But that’s only a small part of the picture: A much, much larger share of data cent...
Join 50,000+ readers who receive our daily digest of the most uplifting stories from around the world.
Tidestromia oblongifolia thrives in high heat—and scientists think it may hold the key to making food crops more resilient amid global warming...
Dalby Forest, the North York Moors: It was a misty morning in the forest, and everything was damp – that’s when I saw one for the first time If you ask someone to draw a mushroom, chances are they will draw a red cap with white dots and a stalk, but they have probably never seen one like this outsid...
A tender and poetic moment unfolds as a butterfly flutters gracefully beside a gorilla s face, its golden hues mirroring the warmth in the animal s eyes. That s how Nature Photographer of the Year Chairman Tin Man Lee artfully described the Animal Portrait category winner (seen above). The contrast ...
Indonesia’s environmental issues often feel too vast to take in at once. A nation said to have more than 17,000 islands, it contains the world’s third-largest tropical rainforest and one of its busiest commodity frontiers. For many Indonesians, the story of modern development is told not in charts b...
Formula One is unquestionably fast. The motorsport’s multi-million-dollar cars achieve speeds over 210 miles per hour on tracks that bend and twist wildly. Even the pit crews operate at warp speed; a complete tire change at all four corners must be accomplished in two seconds. For the Oracle Red Bul...
Brightcast is dedicated to restoring faith in humanity by highlighting the progress, solutions, and kindness that often go unnoticed. We believe in a balanced worldview.
Read our full mission →
Calumma gallus is a small chameleon from eastern Madagascar that scientists still don’t fully understand. But thanks to a new study led by German herpetologist Frank Glaw, scientists have a new grasp on the color-changing creatures.In the study, which was published in "Salamandra: The German Journal...
We don’t know about you, but we love everything about the royals. They seem so elegant, intelligent, and stately. When we see photos of them in the wild, it’s almost as if we’re looking at someone from a different world. Like, there is no way we all live the same type of life. Some of these royals j...
Lari Pittman’s first New York solo show, the first time Nan Goldin showed prints of her famed The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (1985), Barbara Bloom’s conceptual reimagining of the Titanic’s ocean-floor detritus, Catherine Opie’s “L.A. Freeways” and “Mini Malls” series, a group show featuring Eadwear...
A surprisingly simple and creative innovation could help restoration projects in the tropics, according to a recent study. Researchers from the Forest Restoration Research Unit at Thailand’s Chiang Mai University (FORRU-CMU) found that cultivating saplings inside repurposed bottle crates substantial...
View image in fullscreenReindeer from the Cairngorms herd stop traffic on the road near Aviemore, Scotland, after snow and ice warnings came into force across the UK. The animals, found in the Cairngorm mountains in the Scottish Highlands, are Britain’s only free-ranging herd of reindeerPhotograph: ...
Know someone who needs a boost? Share Brightcast with your friends and family.
Scientists used CRISPR to boost the efficiency and digestibility of a fungus already known for its meatlike qualities. The modified strain grows protein far more quickly and with much less sugar while producing substantially fewer emissions. It also outperforms chicken farming in land use and water ...
Beavers have recently enjoyed a makeover as ecological heroes. Their dams and ponds, once destroyed as a pesky source of flooding, are now hailed as water-cleansing oases that do everything from harbor fish to buffer the landscape from wildfires. But less has been said about their effects on terrest...
Two new studies suggest that the semi-aquatic rodents provide food and habitat for bats and pollinator insects within their engineered ecosystems...
Christopher C. Grinter has spent much of his life surrounded by insects, though not in the way most people imagine. As Senior Collection Manager of Entomology at the California Academy of Sciences, he oversees one of the world’s major scientific archives of insects, a record of life that stretches f...
Congo Basin countries have announced the launch of a payments for environmental services, or PES, initiative at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil, intended to encourage practices favorable to forest protection and restoration. The financial mechanism, announced Nov. 18 and supported by the C...
