Between 1997 and 2002 they released 1,541 Canadian deer in former open-pit coal mines: 25 years later there are about 13,000
For more than a century, the large deer that once roamed Kentucky were virtually absent from this US state. The ...
A $700 billion treasure trove of potential drugs lies hidden in tropical forests
How much are tropical forests worth? Obviously the correct answer is “their value is inestimable”, but it is well known ...
Climate change is not only warming the oceans: it is weakening a connection between the Pacific and the Indian Ocean that has worked for centuries
Climate change is altering more than just ocean temperatures. A new study has found that global warming is weakening the ...
Why do scavenger animals never eat the corpses of their own species?
Animals that feed on the corpses of other animals are generically defined as “scavengers”, an umbrella term that includes representatives ...
In 1972, Florida threw up to two million tires into the sea to create a reef and it went wrong: 50 years later they are still being removed
In 1972, off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida (United States), a project was launched that seemed to solve two ...
The Atacama Desert has bloomed (again) and El Niño has something to do with it
The Atacama Desert is a record-breaking place. Not so much for its size: its 128,000 km2 of surface area place ...
A Mississippi couple spent 20 years rebuilding a forest on their property, and this summer conservation agents arrived with 500 rare frogs from the United States to release them.
More than 20 years ago, Jim and Laura Currie began reclaiming a degraded piece of land on their property in ...
They released beavers into a forest in England and a year later something surprising happened: they created a 35-meter wetland full of life
In March 2025, two pairs of beavers were released into Little Sea, an area of wet forest located in Studland, ...