53+ min ago   (293+ words) A cameraman waited 17 hours in freezing cold to capture this unbelievable polar bear shot. “This is the most incredible perspective of a polar bear that I’ve ever seen—down to the way the ice, water, and bubbles frame the bear’s…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (713+ words) Their engineering feats are pretty dam incredible. It’s not easy being a river in the desert under the best of circumstances. The ecosystem exists in a very delicate balance, allowing water sources to thrive in the harsh conditions. These water…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (520+ words) It’s become a protected wildlife sanctuary. Hollywood actor Marlon Brando fell in love with Tetiaroa Atoll in French Polynesia while scouting locations and filming Mutiny on the Bounty (1962). He also fell in love with his Tahitian co-star, Tarita Teriipaia. The…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (466+ words) In 1987, a botanist named Hugh Wilson looked at 109 hectares of exhausted hill country on New Zealand’s Banks Peninsula. Most of its old-growth forest had long since been cleared for grazing, and much of what remained was buried under gorse. He…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (427+ words) Marie Tharp changed how humanity sees the planet. Yet so many have never heard her name. Most of us learn about the Earth’s shifting tectonic plates by middle school. But in Marie Tharp’s time, this fact we now take for…...

3+ mon, 2+ day ago   (548+ words) When we think of rainforests, we usually picture tropical rainforests like the Amazon in South America, the Congo in Central Africa, or Borneo in Southeast Asia. We don’t usually (or ever, really) think of the British Isles. But surprisingly, the…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago   (544+ words) No one knew if this idea would actually work. When a team of Australian researchers started checking the high-tech boxes they’d installed to help save endangered greater gliders back in 2023, they weren’t sure what they were going to find. The…...

3+ mon, 5+ day ago   (391+ words) There is still much to learn about these iconic big cats. We’ve been told since the dawn of time that tigers are fiercely solitary creatures. But recent wildlife footage completely challenges that notion…and in the most adorable way, to…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (410+ words) A few years ago (spring of 2022, to be precise), lab tech for Cornell University’s entomology department Rachel Fordyce had taken her usual morning stroll through East Lawn Cemetery in Ithaca, New York, when something altogether unusual happened. Then another, and…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (557+ words) The iconic conservationist shows no signs of slowing down. One of the most famous voices on the planet has had one heck of a career. Sir David Attenborough has been creating and narrating wildlife films and documentaries for longer than…...