2023 World Wildlife Day: All You Need To Know
World Wildlife Day is observed on March 3 every year. (Representational)Our planet is home to a wide array of wild flora and fauna which play a crucial role in maintaining…
America’s Most Boring Association Is Fighting the Planet
Outside every front door, life reigns. The air teems with pollen and spores. Bacteria the weight of a cow multiplies underneath a half-acre of soil. Studies in North Carolina and…
Nature’s Soundtrack Reveals the Secrets of Degradation
Digital listening is becoming the most powerful new scientific tool for observing and preserving our natural environment. From the Arctic to the Amazon, scientists are covering the globe with networks…
The Secret Life of Plant Killers
When you hunt the tree of heaven, you come to know it by its smell. A waft of creamy peanut butter leads you to a tall trunk, silvery and nubbled…
The Double Life of an American Lake Monster
Michigan State University has several labs dedicated to the study and control of lampreys, which make for idiosyncratic subjects. Lamprey skeletons are constructed of cartilage rather than bone, and they…
‘We Are The Caretakers’ Puts Afrofuturism Front and Center
Afrofuturism, if you’re unfamiliar, is a movement in literature, music, art, video games, movies, etc., featuring futuristic or science fiction themes which incorporate elements of global Black history and culture,…
Humans Need to Create Interspecies Money to Save the Planet
The greatest failure of the digital age is how far removed it is from nature. The microchip has no circadian rhythm, nor has the computer breath. The network is incorporeal.…
Wildlife populations are seeing ‘catastrophic’ rapid declines
By Donna Lu Wildlife populations across the world have declined drastically over the past 50 yearsMartin Harvey / WWF Global wildlife populations are declining rapidly, according to the 2020 Living…
The amusing skulduggery-filled tale of how beavers returned to Britain
From photocopying secret files to taking on the powerful lobby groups, activist Derek Gow’s book Bringing Back the Beaver tells his side of the story of Britain’s beaver reintroduction Life…
Common dolphins may finally be returning to the Adriatic sea
By Chelsea Whyte Common dolphin of the coast of SloveniaMarina Koren, Morigenos COMMON dolphins (Delphinus delphis) were once relatively easy to find throughout the Adriatic Sea, but large groups were…