This Hawaiian island's 'freakosystems' are a warning from the future
Ecosystems which have never been seen before are being accidentally created by humans. They offer a stark look into the nature of tomorrow.
How To Build A Thousand-Year-Old Tree
A set of experimental techniques and technologies that harm trees might actually help ancient forests.
China wants to restore the sea with high-tech marine ranches
China is the world's top fish consumer and is spending billions on technology designed to restock the oceans. But will this expensive experiment actually work?
How a Soviet swamp rat scheme for Azerbaijan went horribly wrong
A Soviet zoologist with a passion for long-extinct mammals set out to reinvigorate the landscape of the Caucasus in the 20th Century. Azerbaijan still bears the scars of his ambition today.
Giant 'living tractors' are bringing nature back to post-industrial wastelands
When water buffalo make a home for themselves in abandoned spaces, they can bring with them a rich array of frogs, bats and plant life.
A Vast Wetland Park Seeks to Slake a Thirsty Megacity
Twice the size of Manhattan, the controversial $1 billion Lake Texcoco Ecological Park is emerging out of the foundations of Mexico City’s canceled airport.
These artificial snowdrifts protect seal pups from climate change
The human-built habitats shield the pups from predators and the freezing cold, but they’re threatened by global temperature rise.
Billy Fleming is Designing a Green New Deal
UPenn lecturer Billy Fleming imagines a more just landscape architecture studio… by taking his students to a uranium mine in Greenland.
How tracking animal movement may save the planet
Researchers have been dreaming of an Internet of Animals. They’re getting closer to monitoring 100,000 creatures—and revealing hidden facets of our shared world.
Research in Chornobyl zone restarts amid ravages of war
The area surrounding the nuclear reactor was a science hotspot — until it was on the front line of the Ukraine war.
