From 11 livestock farms to a reserve of 27,000 hectares: the project that managed to return elephants, rhinos and large predators to South Africa
For decades, the landscape of the Great Karoo, in South Africa, lost much of the fauna that had been part ...
Record heat is making earthquakes in the Arctic increasingly devastating
Many of the effects of climate change are there for all to see, but perhaps even more disturbing are those ...
In 1998 they covered degraded land with 12,000 tons of orange peels: 16 years later it was a forest
In 1998, some 12,000 tons of orange peels and pulp were used to cover degraded land in Costa Rica. The ...
How do dogs understand us? Study reveals they process words like us
Dogs also rely on consonants to distinguish words in speech: exposure to language affects how the brain functions. We really ...
Bubbles, the “bully” bottlenose dolphin: makes fish vomit to steal their meal
Bubbles is a bottlenose dolphin who lives free off the coast of Lady Elliot Island, an island located in the ...
In 1987, they brought 30 bison to a Kansas prairie: 29 years later, the richness of native plants had increased by 103%.
For decades, scientists have studied what happens when large herbivores reoccupy the ecosystems in which they evolved. On a Kansas ...
What is the Pompeii of the Andes (and why does it also tell us about climate)
Almost 22 million years ago the eruption of the Lauca volcanic caldera buried a part of the Chilean Andes, covering ...
They planted it 200 years ago to stop river erosion: the invasive tree in the US that they still cannot eliminate
Planting trees to protect river banks seemed like a difficult decision to question. During the 19th century, the United States ...