Atlantic bluefin tuna circle a holding pen near Malta. The Mediterranean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico were long thought to be the only locales where the massively valuable fish spawns. Alex Mustard / Nature Picture Library / Alamy Stock Photo In November 1981, a fleet of briefcase-toting lobbyists, scientists and political negotiators gathered in…

Photographs by Morgan Heim Text by Cheryl Katz Perched on a snow-crusted hill in a glacier-flanked valley known as Reindalen, ecology graduate student Emma Djurberg looks like a modern-day Valkyrie on a quest. Long blond braids frame the scope at her eye as she searches for her target—a shaggy gray creature about the size of…

Humans rely on a bevy of strange natural chemicals to liven up our food and drink, to endure pain, and to change our perspective. We use caffeine from coffee, tea, and yerba mate to stimulate our bodies and minds, capsaicin from red pepper flakes or isothiocyanates in horseradish or wasabi to enliven our food with…

With new projects in the Amazon rainforest, Amazon is raising the bar for carbon credit quality Amazon is expanding its investments in nature-based solutions that fight climate change with two new agroforestry projects in the Amazon Rainforest. These projects will improve livelihoods for local farming communities while removing and storing carbon from the atmosphere and…

At a climate summit this fall, Bill Gates sparked controversy by dismissing tree planting as a climate crisis solution, calling it “complete nonsense.” To many, this may seem shocking. But the real issue stems from the misconception that ecosystem restoration is the same as mass ‘tree planting’. If you are like so many children who…

As much as 60-70% of the bacteria found in nature are resistant to antibiotics in Bangladesh, according to a study. The comprehensive study conducted by the Microbiology Department of Jahangirnagar University (JU) revealed the alarming trends in antibiotic resistance among bacteria in natural environments. The findings, presented at a seminar titled “One Health Assessment of…

Lindy Orwin pulls a long-horned beetle in a petri dish out of her handbag and plonks it on the table in front of me. Clipped to my phone is one essential tool in the citizen scientist’s armoury – a macro lens which costs less than $30, but which is powerful enough to reveal the insect’s…

Nature loss and the climate crisis are locked in a vicious cycle. These two issues are separate yet inextricably linked. As the climate crisis escalates, natural habitats are being destroyed. This in turn exacerbates the climate crisis and loss of wildlife. Here are 10 ways the two issues are connected: 1 Wildfires destroy ecosystems Uncontrollable…

Want to see a troublemaking penguin? What about a startling starling murmuration? A curious lion cub? A very very sleepy polar bear? Well, you, dear reader, have lucked out. All of the above appear in the shortlist for the Natural History Museum’s annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice awards. But which picture is…