The sea can feel distant even to people who live hundreds of miles from a coastline. It sits beyond the horizon, beneath ships and far below the surface, largely hidden from ordinary view. Sylvia Earle spent much of her life trying to make that hidden world less remote. Born in New Jersey in 1935, she…
A Finnish boat builder has demonstrated what solar-powered sailing could look like by building an 11-metre yacht from scratch and taking it on a voyage of more than 3,000 nautical miles using electricity generated from the sun. The yacht, designed and built by Lukas Sjöman, relies on solar panels and batteries instead of conventional diesel…
For generations, prairie dogs were often treated as a problem rather than an ecological asset. Their burrows were blamed for competing with livestock, while their colonies were targeted through shooting and poisoning across large parts of their former range.But removing them had consequences far larger than the disappearance of one small mammal. Scientists studying black-tailed…
The Amazon’s fish live in water that can change dramatically with the seasons. In some places, oxygen levels fall so low that ordinary gill breathing is not enough. Several Amazonian species have adapted by taking oxygen from the air or by breathing at the water’s surface. That unusual ability is now being considered alongside another…
For years, Ray Patel’s Golden Key Hotel stood on a busy stretch of Colorado Street in Glendale, California, surrounded by a city that was changing quickly. According to the Los Angeles Times, then came the Americana at Brand, a roughly $400 million mixed-use development that brought shops, restaurants and homes to the area. Patel’s 55-room…
Candace Owens (Image via Getty) Michael Knowles has drawn a sharp line around the growing public debate over Charlie Kirk’s murder, rejecting the idea of moderating a proposed clash between Candace Owens and Andrew Wilson. In comments shared online, Knowles argued that the case should be handled through the legal system rather than turned into…
In the middle of the Netherlands, an unusual experiment in conservation began with an unlikely raw material: mud. Instead of treating the vast quantities of sediment accumulating on the floor of Markermeer as waste, Dutch engineers used it to create a new landscape. They built a chain of islands from sand, clay, silt and other…
Before Shasta Lake covered the landscape of northern California, the Sacramento River valley was home to a mining town shaped by copper, railroads and the industries that followed them.Its name was Kennett; the town grew from a railroad construction camp into an important mining community in Shasta County. Copper mines helped drive its economy, while…
Representative Image of an overgrown railway transformed into a thriving wildlife habitat (AI-generated image) Deep in the driftless hills of southwestern Wisconsin lies a railway corridor that has not carried a train since 1964, yet it remains one of the busiest routes in the region, only now the traffic moves on hooves, wings and two…
In August 1868, the Sun briefly became a laboratory for astronomers gathered in India to watch a total solar eclipse. Among them was the French astronomer Pierre Jules Janssen, who turned a spectroscope towards the bright prominences rising around the eclipsed solar disc. Their light contained a yellow spectral line that seemed to sit close…