4-Year-Old Dominic Brings Home a Baby Deer Named Flash
Originally published 2022-10-02. In January 2021, four-year-old Dominic Brown went outside to play during a family holiday in Massanutten,...
Nature, Animals & Environment
The natural world is full of remarkable lives and connections. A forest, an urban garden and an animal migration can each reveal something about how our planet works. Browse stories about wildlife, habitats and environmental change, and the choices people make in the places they call home.
Bear Cubs That Look Like They’re Dancing: Mulkahainen’s Photos
Valtteri Mulkahainen , a teacher in Sotkamo, Finland has captured an amazing series of pictures showing bear cubs in poses resembling a d...
DR Congo's 2022 Oil Auction: Rainforest, Peatland Risks and Outcome
Originally published 2022-07-26. In late July 2022 the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) opened an auction of 30 oil and gas blocks ...
Wild Tiger Numbers: What the IUCN's 2022 Estimate Really Shows
Originally published 2022-07-24. Are there really more wild tigers than we thought? Yes, but with an important asterisk. In July 2022 the ...
Kylie Jenner's Private Jet Backlash and the 17-Minute Flight
Originally published 2022-07-22. In July 2022 Kylie Jenner faced a wave of criticism after posting an Instagram photo of herself and her ...
Luton and RAF Brize Norton Runways in the July 2022 UK Heatwave
Originally published 2022-07-19. Did runways really melt during the UK's July 2022 heatwave? Not quite. On Monday 18 July 2022, London...
Did 90% of Atlantic Plankton Disappear? What the Evidence Shows
Originally published 2022-07-18. In July 2022 a Scottish newspaper reported that 90% of the plankton in the Atlantic Ocean had disappeared...
Europe's July 2022 Heatwave: Deaths, Wildfires and UK's 40°C Record
Originally published 2022-07-18. In mid-July 2022 a severe heatwave spread from Portugal and Spain across France and into the UK. By 18 Ju...
Pope Francis on Eating Less Meat: What He Said in Prague and Why
Originally published 2022-07-17. In July 2022 Pope Francis told young Europeans that people in some parts of the world should eat less mea...
Tanya and Tarzan: Ex-Circus Lions Feel Grass at ADI's Sanctuary
First published July 15, 2022. Tanya and Tarzan are two African lions who spent roughly eight years in a small, bare cage in a travelling ...
Trophy Hunter Riaan Naude Shot Dead Near Mokopane, South Africa
Originally published 2022-07-11. Riaan Naude, a 55-year-old South African professional hunter, was shot dead beside his vehicle on the R518...
Two Male Penguins at a Dutch Zoo Took Over a Female Pair's Nest
In October 2020, DierenPark Amersfoort, a zoo in the Netherlands, announced that two male African penguins in its colony had taken over a n...
Bill Gates vs Elon Musk: Climate Giving and the Tesla Short
Originally published 2022-06-11. In June 2022, Bill Gates told a French interviewer that he gives far more money to fighting climate chang...
Glowing GloFish Zebrafish Found Breeding in Brazil's Streams
First published June 6, 2022. Yes, genetically modified fluorescent zebrafish, the glowing pets sold under the GloFish brand, have been fo...
Dinosaur-Like Legs in Chicken Embryos: What the Fibula Study Found
First published June 5, 2022. Photo: chicken embryo, Graeme Campbell/Wikimedia In 2016 a team at the University of Chile reported that th...
Amazon Lidar Reveals the Cities of the Casarabe
From above, an ancient earthwork may look like little more than a change in the ground. Bring thousands of precise height measurements toget...
Chile May Be Home to the World’s Oldest Tree: Gran Abuelo
A massive trunk can make human lifetimes feel brief. Gran Abuelo, an alerce in southern Chile, does that even before anyone assigns it an ag...
EU Rooftop Solar Rule: From the 2022 Proposal to the 2024 Law
Originally published 2022-05-29. Pictured: Frans Timmermans, then the European Commission's climate chief, and a solar-roofed house be...
Wikifarmer: The Greek Farming Library That Became a Marketplace
Originally published 2022-05-20. Wikifarmer is a Greek agricultural platform that started as a free online library of farming knowledge an...
India and Pakistan Heatwave of 2022: Records, Power Cuts and Crops
Originally published 2022-05-10. In spring 2022, India and Pakistan went through one of the most punishing heatwaves in their modern histo...
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