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More than 10 million dead trees are standing like tombstones along America’s Atlantic coast — scientists mapped vast “ghost forests” where seawater is creeping inland and turning living woodland into salt marsh
13+ min ago (659+ words) Along stretches of the American east coast, whole stands of trees have gone the colour of old bone. Published September 6, 2026 · How we edit Along stretches of the American east coast, whole stands of trees have gone the colour of old…...
Archaeologists found a 1,200-year-old island in Fiji made almost entirely of discarded shellfish — created by generations of people processing food during the same centuries Maya cities flourished and Viking voyagers began crossing the North Atlantic
25+ min ago (548+ words) Accumulating shellfish refuse transformed a Fijian shoreline into solid ground, revealing how ordinary people across the Pacific engineered their landscape one meal at a time. Published September 6, 2026 · How we edit A thousand years of lunch has been sitting off the…...
Scientists mapped beneath Utah’s Great Salt Lake and found a potentially vast reservoir of freshwater hiding under one of America’s saltiest lakes — in places, it extends more than three kilometres underground
43+ min ago (473+ words) Reeds do not grow on salt flats. Yet dozens of near-perfect circles of them have shoved their way up through the crust of Farmington Bay, in the south-eastern corner of Utah's Great Salt Lake. Published September 6, 2026 · How we edit Reeds…...
Researchers analysing 469 rumbles from wild African elephants in Kenya found that calls contained name-like information identifying their intended recipient; in playback tests, 17 elephants approached the speaker and called back significantly faster when hearing a call originally addressed to them than one from the same caller meant for another elephant.
1+ hour, 24+ min ago (1407+ words) Machine learning found receiver-specific information in 469 Kenyan elephant rumbles, and 17 wild elephants responded faster to calls originally directed at them. By Natural History · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 6, 2026 · How we edit A deep elephant rumble is not an empty…...
Namibia's capital has been drinking its own sewage since 1968, when eight years of pilot work produced a system whose current plant pushes 21,000 cubic meters a day through a ten-step treatment process before the water reaches a kitchen tap again.
9+ hour, 44+ min ago (542+ words) When a desert city runs dry, recycling sewage into tap water stops being taboo and becomes survival—a technology now copied worldwide but perfected first in Windhoek over fifty years ago. By The Long View · Edited by Mal James Published…...
A Brazilian couple took over a badly degraded former cattle farm and in 1998 founded an organisation to restore its Atlantic Forest; the first survey, in 2006, found 172 bird species had already returned to the recovering forest.
15+ hour, 58+ min ago (326+ words) When Sebastião Salgado inherited his family's cattle ranch near Aimorés, in Brazil's Rio Doce Valley, the land was close to dead. Published September 5, 2026 · How we edit That half a percent is where this story begins. What sits on the same…...
Farmers in Thailand were losing crops to hungry elephants, so they began replacing sugar cane and bananas with coffee — a crop the herds largely leave alone, allowing farmers to protect their income without fencing the animals out
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (191+ words) Published September 4, 2026 · How we edit A sugar cane field, to a hungry elephant, is a vending machine with the glass already broken. A few farming communities in Kanchanaburi province have gone the other way and started growing something the herds…...
Scientists looked inside a rock pellet smaller than a grain of rice and found a 445-million-year-old world preserved within it — more than 20 microscopic marine organisms, including a species never seen before
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (362+ words) Published September 4, 2026 · How we edit A cylinder of rock narrower than a grain of rice went into an X-ray beam outside Melbourne and came back holding an ocean. Sitting inside it were more than 20 microscopic fossils, spread across eight species,…...
In 2022, a 17-year-old built a $300 thought-controlled prosthetic arm; unlike very expensive and invasive brain-controlled systems, his version reads brainwaves through non-invasive electrodes
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (329+ words) One arm is a research-lab masterwork that reads a wearer's intent and, in some setups, lets them feel through it. Published September 4, 2026 · How we edit We are not clinicians, prosthetists, or biomedical engineers, and nothing here is medical guidance. This…...
In 1959, and again in 1971, South Korea imported American bullfrogs to be raised as food, but the business never took off; released and escaped frogs spread through the country and now prey heavily on native wildlife.
2+ day, 11+ hour ago (698+ words) Import a big, fast-growing frog from North America, farm it for its meat, and turn a pond into a small food business. Published September 3, 2026 · How we edit Import a big, fast-growing frog from North America, farm it for its meat,…...