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A large rat stands on a tree trunk at night. The Vangunu giant rat is the first new species of rodent described from Solomon Islands in over 80 years.
Animals

A legendary Vangunu giant rat was finally caught on camera

By Laura Baisas

A newborn rhino calf stands under his mother. He is black and does not have his signature horns in yet.
Animals

A critically endangered Sumatran rhino named Delilah welcomes first calf

By Laura Baisas

Broadclub Cuttlefish
Animals

Cuttlefish and their amazing technicolor dreamcoats

By Olivia Ferrari / Hakai Magazine

Dolphins that learn to approach people for an easy meal will often hang around fishing boats.
Conservation

Stop feeding the dolphins—seriously

By Emily Harwitz / Hakai Magazine

A bioluminescent sea cucumber called Scotoplanes or the “sea pig.”
Animals

Surprise! These sea cucumbers glow

By Laura Baisas

A piping plover walks along L Street Beach in South Boston. The bird is small, with white and grey plummage.
Animals

Piping plovers are in trouble, but there’s some good news

By Laura Baisas

Attenborough's long-beaked echidna, photographed by a camera trap.
Animals

Elusive egg-laying mammal caught on camera for the first time

By Laura Baisas

Smallmouth buffalofish caught at Apache Lake, Arizone
Animals

Century-old buffalofish are still living in their prime

By Hannah Seo

How frozen baby corals and high-powered lasers could help dying reefs
Conservation

How frozen baby corals and high-powered lasers could help dying reefs

By Brent M. Foster / Hakai Magazine

Kelp holds a timeline of Earth’s history
Climate Change

Kelp holds a timeline of Earth’s history

By Bill Morris / Hakai Magazine

A baby loggerhead turtle pokes out of a shell on the sand. Its head and front flippers are out of the shell, with the lower half remaining inside.
Animals

Endangered sea turtles build hundreds of nests on the Outer Banks

By Laura Baisas

A steak with kelp on top is plated by a chef holding a sauce pan.
Agriculture

This sea-to-farm-to-table restaurant wants kelp to catch on

By Laura Baisas

AlgaRay robot floating atop water in Antigua
Animals

This seafaring robot ‘eats’ stinky seaweed and dumps it in deep water

By Andrew Paul

a collection of woolly mammoth figurines on petri dishes on a blue background to represent Colossal's de-extinction project
Animals

Is de-extinction only a pipette dream? This startup has a big, expensive plan to find out.

By Andrew Zaleski

Orsted offshore wind turbines in the UK
Conservation

Atlantic City’s massive offshore wind farm project highlights the industry’s growing pains

By Andrew Paul

An endangered Texas ocelot in the vicinity of the highway.
Animals

Wildlife exits on Texas roads could help endangered ocelots

By Laura Baisas

Galapagos giant tortoises are restoring their own ecosystem
Animals

Galapagos giant tortoises are restoring their own ecosystem

By Syris Valentine/Hakai Magazine

A Secchi Disk and a measuring tape on a gray wooden floating pier next to a moored boat.
Climate Change

You can help measure the ocean’s health with this homemade gadget

By Alisha McDarris

Two US Coast Guard officials handling remains of OceanGate Titan submersible
Conservation

What the US Coast Guard found on their last OceanGate Titan salvage mission

By Andrew Paul

Grazer looking chunky and getting ready for winter on September 14, 2023. The bear is in the river intensely staring for salmon.
Animals

Fierce mama Grazer takes 2023’s Fat Bear Week crown

By Laura Baisas

An underwater closeup of Cayo margarita (a new species) in the coral reef of the Florida Keys. Note the two long tentacles, used by the snail to spread the mucus net for feeding.
Animals

New neon-yellow snail from the Florida Keys gets a happy hour-ready name

By Laura Baisas

Oyster-inspired sponges can scoop up nearly invisible nanoplastics in the ocean
Climate Change

Oyster-inspired sponges can scoop up nearly invisible nanoplastics in the ocean

By Chris Baraniuk / Hakai Magazine

Green fir trees in neat rows as seen from the air.
Agriculture

Tree plantations try to offset our carbon pollution. Here’s the problem.

By Hannah Seo

The Morona-Santiago stubfoot toad (Atelopus halihelos) in Ecuador is listed as critically endangered.
Animals

How we can help the most endangered class of animals survive climate change

By Laura Baisas

Animal deterring robotic wolf sentry
Animals

Robotic ‘Super Monster Wolves’ are guarding Japanese towns against bears

By Andrew Paul

America’s war in Afghanistan devastated the country’s environment in ways that may never be cleaned up
Climate Change

America’s war in Afghanistan devastated the country’s environment in ways that may never be cleaned up

By Lynzy Billing/Inside Climate News

To protect wild bumblebees, people have to find them first
Animals

To protect wild bumblebees, people have to find them first

By Sarah Trent / High Country News

South Africa’s Missing sharks have been found
Animals

South Africa’s Missing sharks have been found

By David Shiffman / Hakai Magazine

Grizzly bear mom and cubs crossing road in Yellowstone National Park
Animals

Grizzlies are getting killed by roads, but the risks are bigger than roadkill

By Hannah Seo

Rafflesia kemumu in the rainforest of Sumatra.
Biology

Earth’s stinkiest flower is threatened with extinction

By Laura Baisas

Why some clownfish are growing up too quickly
Animals

Why some clownfish are growing up too quickly

By Elizabeth Landau / Hakai Magazine

Manatee in a patch of sunlight
Animals

Sea the beauty of the world’s oceans with these 12 award-worthy photos

By Popular Science Team

Pacific Ocean storm seen from a research vessel's stern
Climate Change

When climate change throws the Pacific off balance, the world’s weather follows

By Hannah Seo

Giant African land snail, an invasive species in Florida, on a red bucket
Animals

Invasive snails are chomping through Florida, and no one can stop them

By Maddi Langweil

A giant panda eats a green plant.
Animals

‘Jet lag’ could be messing with pandas’ natural mating behaviors

By Laura Baisas

Plastic fishing gear brings in a better catch, but there’s a big tradeoff
Animals

Plastic fishing gear brings in a better catch, but there’s a big tradeoff

By Alastair Bland/Hakai Magazine

Revo Foods 3D-printed salmon
Animals

The world’s first 3D-printed salmon is hitting store shelves, and it looks kind of good

By Andrew Paul

Possum eating on a doorstep
Animals

11 jaw-dropping photos of marsupials, mushrooms, and more

By Popular Science Team

An orca whale swims around an ice flow with a crabeater seal and penguin on the ice.
Animals

New series offers an intimate look into how climate change impacts the lives of wildlife

By Laura Baisas

Polar bear decline is directly linked to greenhouse gas emissions
Animals

Polar bear decline is directly linked to greenhouse gas emissions

By Bob Berwyn/Inside Climate News

How an internet sleuth rekindled hope for the survival of the clown wedgefish
Animals

How an internet sleuth rekindled hope for the survival of the clown wedgefish

By Brian Howey/Hakai Magazine

MIT Van Atta Backscatter array closeup
Conservation

This new subsea communications system can run on an iota of power

By Andrew Paul

An eruption emerges from the ocean in a cloud of ash and a lightning strike.
Conservation

The Tonga volcanic eruption reshaped the seafloor in mind-boggling ways

By Rahul Rao

Colorful plastic cutlery on a white background. The United States uses more than 36 billion plastic utensils every year.
Conservation

Millions of tons of waste could be eliminated by ‘nudging’ consumers to skip the plastic fork

By Laura Baisas

Two Atlantic puffins stand on a white rock above the ocean, with another group of puffins in the background, Atlantic puffins are sometimes nicknamed “sea parrots,” and their chicks hatch in Maine in early July.
Animals

Maine’s puffins show another year of remarkable resiliency

By Laura Baisas

Sunset over pacific ocean
Climate Change

The Pacific heat blob’s aftereffects are still warping ocean ecosystems

By Ethan Freedman/Hakai Magazine

Coral reef with a variety of hard and soft corals and tropical fish
Conservation

Scientists are intentionally bleaching and ‘cryopreserving’ coral

By Andrew Paul

Offshore wind turbines
Conservation

We can’t ignore that offshore wind farms are part of marine ecosystems

By Becki Robins / Undark

Two Emperor penguin chicks standing on sea ice in Antarctica.
Animals

Emperor penguins suffer ‘unprecedented’ breeding failure as sea ice disappears

By Laura Baisas

This is what happens when feral cows take over a remote Alaskan island
Agriculture

This is what happens when feral cows take over a remote Alaskan island

By Jude Isabella/Hakai Magazine

Inside the fight to reclaim California’s biggest freshwater lake from algae
Climate Change

Inside the fight to reclaim California’s biggest freshwater lake from algae

By Tien Nguyen/Knowable Magazine

A coral reef just off of an island in Palau. Coral reefs in Palau provide critical habitats for a number of species and provide a storm barrier.
Animals

Some Pacific coral reefs can keep pace with a warming ocean

By Laura Baisas

The truth behind animal resistance memes
Animals

The truth behind animal resistance memes

By Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond / The Conversation

Elkhorn coral fragments in lab
Animals

The heroic effort to save Florida’s coral reef from a historic heatwave

By Michael Childress/The Conversation

Seedlings in yellow pots at a plant nursery in Glacier National Park
Conservation

We need billions more baby trees to regrow US forests

By Carla Delgado

Dead humback whale on beach from aerial view
Animals

Dead whales and dinosaur eggs: 7 fascinating images by researchers

By Popular Science Team

A many tentacled feather star.
Animals

Behold a 20-armed, strawberry-shaped Antarctic sea creature

By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira

Members of the Dutch Tall Ship Oosterschelde wave goodbye from the quay in Rotterdam on August 4, 2023. The Rotterdam ship departs for a two-year world tour that scientist Charles Darwin made two centuries ago.
Animals

Mission to recreate Darwin’s scientific Beagle voyage sets sail

By Laura Baisas

A new snake species named Tachymenoides harrisonfordi was discovered during an expedition in Peru in May 2022. The copper scaled snake is seen here coiled on some brown grass.
Animals

Harrison Ford’s latest namesake is an Andean snake species

By Laura Baisas

Four bivalve species found along the Maine coast, including the Northern Quahog, Eastern Oyster, a steamer clam, and a blue mussel presented together in a bed of seaweed at low tide.
Animals

Popular shellfish resist extinction in surprising ways

By Laura Baisas

Lead claimant Rikki Held, 22, confers with members of Our Children's Trust legal team before the start of the nation's first youth climate change trial at Montana's First Judicial District Court on June 12, 2023 in Helena, Montana.
Climate Change

Judge sides with youth activists in groundbreaking climate change lawsuit

By Laura Baisas

The Grand Prismatic Spring at Yellowstone National Park, with steam rising and mountains in the distance. Temperatures at Yellowstone’s famous hot springs can reach 198 degrees Fahrenheit.
Animals

Don’t lick the toads and other things to avoid at national parks

By Laura Baisas

Maya Tilousi, member of the Hopi Tribe, Havasupai Tribe of Grand Canyon, and the Cheyanne and Arapaho Tribes, shakes hands with President Joe Biden at Red Butte Airfield, 25 miles south of Tusayan, Arizona, on August 8, 2023. Biden announced he is putting the brakes on uranium mining around the Grand Canyon and willl give an area of nearly one million acres national monument status.
Conservation

Nearly 1 million acres of land near the Grand Canyon is now a national monument

By Laura Baisas

Tourists visit the Solfatara crater, part of the Campi Flegrei Volcano, the biggest caldera of Italy.
Conservation

Up the coast from Pompeii, another city grows on top of an underground volcano

By Agostino Petroni/Undark

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