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Billionaire entrepreneur Ben Lamm’s genetics startup Colossal Biosciences made headlines in 2025 with bold claims of bringing extinct species back to life. The company announced it had successfully “resurrected” the dire wolf—a predator that vanished at the end of the…
From thousands of feet above the Peruvian Amazon, the devastating impact of illegal gold mining becomes starkly visible. Professor José Manuyama, president of the Committee for the Defense of the Water of Iquitos, watched in anguish as his small aircraft…
The environmental science community is mourning the loss of Emma Johnston, a pioneering marine ecologist and academic leader who died December 26, 2025, in Melbourne from cancer-related complications. Johnston, who had just begun her role as vice-chancellor of the University…
As Cornwall’s iconic Eden Project celebrates its 25th anniversary, co-founder Sir Tim Smit offers a surprisingly optimistic assessment of global environmental progress. Despite widespread concerns about climate change and ecological destruction, Smit believes the world is actually in better shape…
Latin America finds itself at a critical environmental juncture, where groundbreaking conservation efforts are increasingly undermined by organized crime and expanding extractive industries. This biodiverse powerhouse—home to 40% of the world’s known species and half of its tropical forests—also sits…
In the dim depths of the Pacific Ocean near Guam, scientists have uncovered a hidden world teeming with never-before-seen life. Using innovative underwater structures that act like “hotels” for sea creatures, researchers from the California Academy of Sciences have discovered…
Deep in California’s Sierra Nevada forests, an unlikely fire specialist thrives where others flee. The black-backed woodpecker has evolved as nature’s perfect post-fire opportunist, swooping into recently burned areas to feast on beetles and nest in fire-hollowed trees. The steady…
As 2025 comes to a close, environmental advocates are celebrating significant grassroots victories that emerged despite a challenging federal policy landscape. While the Trump administration implemented sweeping environmental rollbacks—including relaxed fossil fuel regulations and weakened protections for endangered species—conservation groups,…
After six years covering environmental justice as The Guardian’s first correspondent in this beat, Nina Lakhani offers a sobering yet hopeful perspective on the climate crisis. While 2024 brought another wave of climate disasters and insufficient political responses, her reporting…
For the past decade, scientist and photographer Jeroen Hoekendijk has been documenting the remarkable lives of pinnipeds—seals, sea lions, and walruses—across the Frisian Islands, a fragile chain of barrier islands stretching along the North Sea coasts of the Netherlands, Germany,…
