People have ignored the most powerful forces that shape our world for hundreds of years because they can’t be seen. Microorganisms, which are too small to see, have been quietly controlling our climate, feeding our soils, and even changing the course of human evolution. Scientists are now looking to these tiny friends for answers as ...
For the first time in recorded history, a security camera caught on tape the harrowing instant the Earth’s crust ripped apart with fury in a massive earthquake. The video, taken at a solar farm just outside of Thazi, Myanmar, during a magnitude 7.7 quake in March, captures the ground opening up in real-time, an unprecedented ...
There’s something a little thrilling about seeing yourself in a creature that never technically existed. Mythical birds are bigger than life, packed with symbolism, drama, and mystery, and that makes them perfect mirrors for the energies of the zodiac. They burn, they vanish, they guard, they whisper between worlds. Sound familiar? I still remember taking ...
Decades have passed since the start of the fight against climate change and the one vital objective remains the same: reducing global warming to 1.5°C higher than it was before the establishment of industries. A very disappointing recent study shows that even if goals this bold are achieved, coastal cities around the globe will still ...
For thousands of years, the Andes were a hotbed of spiritual creativity, where people found communion with the god in the very fabric of nature. At the center of this divine connection was Chavín de Huántar, a vast ceremonial site in Peru that flourished 1200–400 BCE, in labyrinthine galleries of stone and monolithic giants, priests ...
Beneath the shimmering waters of Florida’s Nature Coast lies an ecological treasure one of the last thriving seagrass meadows in the world. While these underwater prairies have vanished at alarming rates globally, a new study reveals that Florida’s northern Gulf Coast has quietly preserved its seagrass ecosystems for thousands of years. Using an unconventional approach ...
Walk into a supermarket today and it can feel like abundance is endless: shelves packed, fruit out of season, ten types of milk in one aisle. But behind that comfortable illusion, the food system is under serious pressure from climate change, water scarcity, soil degradation, and a growing global population. The way we produce food ...
Beneath the crushing pressures and near-boiling waters of the Indian Ocean’s abyss crawls a creature so bizarre it seems ripped from science fiction. The scaly-foot snail (Chrysomallon squamiferum) also called the “volcano snail” or “sea pangolin” is a living paradox: an iron-armored mollusk with a heart the size of a pea in a body no ...
On the surface, NASA’s new satellite imagery appears to drop a bombshell: Antarctica, the icy giant that contains 90% of the globe’s fresh water, has been accumulating ice since 2021. This appears to run counter to the incessant drumbeat of global warming but scientists caution that this is far from a reversal of climate change. ...
Following a landmark ruling, Mexico’s Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (PROFEPA) has closed the dolphinarium at Hotel Barceló in Riviera Maya permanently in a victory for the cause against the exploitation of marine mammals. The park, run by Acuario Arrecifal, S.A. de C.V., had faced closure for numerous infractions on animal well-being legislation such as ...
