The Seabird Everyone Thought Was GONE Forever Just Came Home
Puffins have been spotted on the Isle of Muck in County Antrim for the first time in at least 25 years, proving that a major conservation effort to remove invasive brown rats and reduce vegetation is bringing these vulnerable red listed seabirds back to their ancestral breeding grounds. What started as folklore and old tales […]
These Glowing Snails Just Made The COMEBACK Of The Century
More than 7,000 critically endangered Partula snails have been released across four islands in French Polynesia in the largest reintroduction of the rare species to date, and conservationists marked each tiny shell with a white UV reflective dot to help track the nocturnal creatures after release. The breakthrough came when the monitoring team spotted something […]
How Nut Trees Are Saving Midwest Farms And The Environment
Every summer a pond at Rusted Plowshare farm in central Missouri used to fill with algae blooms as rows of corn and soybeans stretched across the landscape with native grasses and wildflowers, and there hadn’t been a quail sighting in 40 years. That changed dramatically when Josh Payne planted 20 acres of chestnut saplings in […]
Scientists Taught Bees To Read Morse Code
A groundbreaking new study from Queen Mary University of London is the first to show that an insect can differentiate between different durations of visual cues, with bumblebees successfully learning to distinguish between Morse code style dots and dashes, an ability previously seen only in humans and other vertebrates including macaques and pigeons. Researchers built […]
What Rescuers Did With A Bluetooth Speaker Saved This Otter Pup
When the Marine Mammal Center received a call on its public hotline about a creature crying frantically in Morro Bay, Central California, a four person team with harbor patrol assistance quickly located what they suspected was a lost otter pup because the sounds this marine mammal makes are remarkably similar to a human baby. They […]
How 5,000 Bison Are Reawakening Yellowstone National Park
Yellowstone National Park is witnessing a striking ecological recovery driven by the return of roughly 5,000 bison whose migration across the park’s grasslands is restoring ancient patterns and reshaping the landscape from the ground up according to a groundbreaking study published in Science. These bison, descendants from the last surviving wild herd, now roam across […]
Scientists Extract Ancient RNA From 39,000 Year Old Woolly Mammoth
When paleogeneticist Love Dalén first saw the remarkably preserved body of a juvenile woolly mammoth named Yuka lying on a lab table in eastern Siberia in 2012, he experienced what he calls a holy hell moment at seeing an animal that didn’t look like it died yesterday despite living 39,000 years ago during the last […]
This Simple Act Of Kindness For A Snake Goes Viral
A safari guide in Hoedspruit, South Africa spotted a mildly venomous Red-lipped Snake in the garden and decided to relocate it to a safer spot, but when he gently placed the snake onto a plant something completely unexpected happened. Instead of slithering away like snakes typically do after being handled, this one stayed put and […]
Daycare Rewilded Its Yard And Children Got Healthier Immediately
A groundbreaking study at Humpula daycare center in Lahti, Finland showed that when 75 children were exposed to nature-like elements five times a week, their body’s microbes diversified dramatically and offered powerful protection against diseases transmitted through the immune system. The study published in Science Advances in 2021 found that children who got down and […]
This City Cuts Waste By 42 Percent And Becomes National Model
In the historic center of Besancon, France, residents casually stroll to a green lidded trash can in Place Pasteur square every weekday to deposit banana skins, egg shells, carrot peel and other kitchen scraps as part of a pioneering waste management system that’s transforming the nation. This remarkable transformation began around 2008 when regional authorities […]