Meet the species and ecosystems that share our planet. Explore discoveries about wildlife, biodiversity, and the connections that keep the natural world working.
16 stories & explainers · Newest first
A duck with a sky-blue bill once shrank to barely two dozen birds in Spain — decades later, thousands paddle across its wetlands again thanks to a rare conservation turnaround.
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Picture entire hillsides washed away and rescue crews wading through mud, still searching for almost 4,800 people days after Nepal's deadliest monsoon flooding in recent memory.
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That spiral shell on the beach was never a souvenir waiting to be found. It was a mollusk's slow-built armor, engineered layer by layer to survive crashing waves and hungry predators.
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Ocean acidification is the gradual drop in seawater pH caused by absorbed carbon dioxide, and it makes it harder for mollusks, corals, and other sea creatures to build the calcium carbonate shells they depend on for survival.
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A finger-sized, glowing blue-and-red fish called the cardinal tetra swims wild in Amazon streams, yet millions live in home aquariums from Mumbai to Manaus. Tracing its journey reveals how a small fish connects rainforest villages to the global economy.
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Pour honey fast enough and you'd expect a splash, not a snap—yet physicists just watched a plain, springless fluid crack apart like glass, breaking a rule scientists trusted for decades.
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Learn what really separates solids from liquids, and why scientists were surprised to see an ordinary fluid crack like glass instead of flowing smoothly.
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Imagine a wild elephant strolling near a busy highway used by hundreds of cars and trucks every day. That is exactly what has forest officials on high alert along the Chittoor-Bengaluru route.
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Long before aeroplanes or motorways, the Aegean Sea was the main highway connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa. Learn how ancient sailors used islands as stepping stones to move people, goods, and ideas across the ancient world.
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A tiny stone jetty on a remote Greek island marks the spot where one of history's most influential journeys touched land — and the island itself has been drawing travellers for over 2,000 years.
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Rocks that breathe — sort of. In a tiny Canadian town called Flower's Cove, you can walk alongside thrombolites: mound-shaped living things that helped create Earth's oxygen billions of years before dinosaurs existed.
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Two tiger cubs died back-to-back inside Kanha Tiger Reserve, one of India's most protected forests — and officials are still piecing together why. The losses have put pressure on forest departments to upgrade how they track and protect big cat families.
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NASA has released fresh satellite images of the Richat Structure in Mauritania, a massive circular landform about 50 kilometres wide that scientists are still studying.
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Super Typhoon Sinlaku has developed in the western Pacific Ocean. NASA satellites are tracking its structure and wind speeds as it moves across the region.
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Four NASA astronauts returned to Earth on 11 April 2026 after completing the Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight to travel around the Moon since 1972.
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A volcano on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula has erupted again, sending lava towards the fishing town of Grindavík. No one was hurt because residents had already been moved to safety.
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