Environment
He is only 14 years old, used a 10-year-old camera, and won the world’s most important macro photography contest with a photo of bees in India
For more than a century, the ocean has prevented a severe global drought, but almost no one has described it that way
An illegal operation is uncovered deep in the forest, and the discovery of trees felled without permission reignites a silent war against the last remaining green lungs
Mexico pulls a “land-based Panama Canal” out of its hat: 303 km across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to connect the Pacific and the Gulf without passing through locks
What a drought has done underground in Panama’s tropical forests is surprising scientists: the fine roots have shrunk by nearly 50 percent, and concerns are mounting over carbon
A giant, invasive spider is already moving through one of the most famous parks in the United States
What satellites have observed about the spread of vegetation could change agriculture in several countries
Denmark is turning off the white light from its streetlamps and painting a road red to solve a nighttime crisis that almost no one sees: urban light was blocking the path of bats
Scientists are studying the digestive tracts of wild bees, and what they’re discovering is forcing us to rethink why some parks appear green but are far less beneficial than we thought
A colleague sent Olga a strange photo taken on a Russian beach, and now scientists believe they have discovered a macabre pattern among orcas: sometimes they hunt each other
The thousands of tons of banana pseudostems left rotting after each harvest are now being transformed into tissue paper and packaging materials, while a simple process using sodium hydroxide at 230°F is achieving pulp yields of up to 44 percent in April 2026 trials
The Arctic mystery that had puzzled oceanographers for 40 years now has an explanation, and it is not wind force
The “pink fairy” has reappeared in a reserve in Mendoza, and its return confirms that an ecosystem that seemed silent still held an extraordinary surprise











