Earth & Environment
In 1905, the author of Peter Rabbit put her book royalties into Hill Top Farm in the Lake District, then bought Troutbeck Park in 1923 to…
Sep 4, 2026
Conservation
26 articles in this category.
Earth & Environment
The Netherlands dredged 30 million cubic metres of sand, clay and silt from the bottom of a shallow lake and shaped it into 5 low islands
Sep 3, 2026
Earth & Environment
In 1999, a South African conservationist named Lawrence Anthony was offered a herd of "rogue" elephants scheduled to be shot, and he took…
Sep 3, 2026
Earth & Environment
A recycling operation in Louisiana grinds discarded glass into sand and used 50 tons of it in burlap sacks to build a 300-foot berm along…
Sep 3, 2026
Earth & Environment
Osprey nests on American power poles can weigh 200 pounds and set the poles they sit on alight, and one burning nest in May cut power to…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 24, 2026
Earth & Environment
Engineers bolted ultrasonic speakers to turbines at a Pennsylvania wind farm and searched the ground beneath them every day for two…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 24, 2026
Earth & Environment
Americans throw away 50,000 mattresses every day, and what makes them a landfill nightmare isn't the foam or chemicals
By Brendan Brown · Aug 22, 2026
Earth & Environment
When fourteen Canadian wolves were released into Yellowstone in 1995, they were credited with bringing back trees, beavers and even…
By Brendan Brown · Aug 11, 2026
Agriculture
Faced with losing its last forests, Costa Rica made a bet no country had tried at scale
Jul 24, 2026
Earth & Environment
A cotton T-shirt has an estimated water footprint of about 2,700 litres, including rainwater, irrigation water and pollution-dilution water
Jul 15, 2026
Earth & Environment
About 60 wild Wollemi pines survive in closely guarded canyon sites after the species was rediscovered in 1994
Jul 13, 2026
Biology
Dead Snakes in Victorian Jars Revealed Five Species Where Scientists Thought There Was One
By Team Wild Science · May 25, 2026