Nature & Wildlife
Life Goes On in Earth’s Most Extreme Environments
“Life finds a way.” That’s a now-famous statement from Dr. Ian Malcolm, a fictional character played by actor Jeff Goldblum in the 1993 movie Jurassic Park.
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Nature & Wildlife
Birds as Architects of Life
When the island of Surtsey erupted from the sea near Iceland in 1963, it became a living experiment in how life begins anew. Decades later, scientists discovered that the plants colonizing this young island weren’t carried there by ocean currents or by the wind, but by birds, who served as winged gardeners.
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Nature & Wildlife
The Ears of Animals
Because it’s so automatic, hearing is a sense that is often taken for granted. However, it’s a crucial sensory system for humans and other animals, acting as a primary tool for survival by detecting threats, locating food and enabling communication, often functioning even in darkness or over long distances.
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African Safaris
Across the Serengeti: East Africa’s Great Migration
Every year, a pulse begins in the heart of East Africa. It starts as a low vibration on the open plains, a sound like distant thunder rolling across the grasslands. Then, the land itself begins to move. Columns of wildebeest, more than a million strong, flow across the horizon in search of fresh, rain-fed grass.
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African Safaris
Mouths of Africa’s Maasai Mara: 9 Winning Wildlife Smiles
The grasslands of Kenya’s Maasai Mara sweep you off your feet with surreal scenery and celebrated wildlife. During the Great Migration, millions of wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of zebras and other ungulates move through the landscape, feeding on the grasses and, in turn, providing food for hungry carnivores.
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Nature & Wildlife
Orangutans Show Us a Better Way of Eating
How are you progressing on your New Year’s resolutions? If you’re like most people, you gave up on them surprisingly fast, with the second Friday in January often called “Quitter’s Day,” because many abandon goals by then. By the second week of February, an estimated 80% of people have scrapped their ambitions.
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Conservation
The Galapagos Islands: A Case Study in Hope, Passion and Action
By Lorin Hancock, Lead Specialist of Media and External Affairs at WWF As a communications professional at WWF, my primary purpose is to motivate and inspire people to act to make the world a better place. But I have a confession: sometimes, it’s difficult to stay positive. You’ve seen the news.
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Conservation
Vanishing Things
Things are vanishing. Here’s an example: humanity has already pushed 60% of Earth’s land outside its safe biosphere zone, with 38% in a high-risk state. Centuries of data confirm how human demands on biomass—from energy production to farming—have destabilized ecosystems worldwide. Asia, Europe and North America show the deepest disruptions, reflecting centuries of land-use change.
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Nature & Wildlife
The Cure for the Pressures of Modern Life Is Nature
The end-of-the-year holidays are once again over. Now, we enter January, famously known as “get-in-shape month.” Typically, this is when we focus on diet plans and gym memberships. But this year, you may want to give your mental health equal priority.
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Nature & Wildlife
Plant Superpowers and Fungi Flexibilities
All organisms on Earth are traditionally placed into six kingdoms of life: Animalia (animals), Archaebacteria (bacteria often found in extreme environments, such as hot springs and hydrothermal vents), Eubacteria (true bacteria), Fungi (molds, mushrooms and yeasts), Protista (algae and amoebas) and Plantae (plants).
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Asia & The Pacific
Bird Watching in Borneo—A Biological Treasure Chest
Big, beautiful and brimming with life, Borneo is a “biological treasure chest,” says Court Whelan, Chief Sustainability Officer at Natural Habitat Adventures.
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Nature & Wildlife
Snow: Why We Need It and How We’re Losing It
I grew up in the Midwest. That means that as a child, as the joke goes, I had to decide on a Halloween costume that could incorporate my winter coat.