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The eelgrass meadow seeded back into Virginia's seaside bays now covers 4,792 hectares and keeps spreading on its own, according to Chris Patrick of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, up from the 3,612 hectares reported in a 2020 Science Advances paper. Disease and a hurricane wiped it out of these lagoons by 1933.
By Justin Brown · Oct 8, 2026
A 2018 study of 20 corn farms in the northern United States found regenerative fields grew 29 percent less grain yet reported higher profits. This article examines where that profit came from, what later research found, and whether the result can scale.
By Justin Brown · Oct 7, 2026
A century of beekeeping wisdom may have misidentified which bees suffer most when winter comes—and blamed the wrong culprit for forcing them to huddle.
By Kiran Journals · Sep 25, 2026
Eleven years of surveys on one family-owned field suggest species-rich meadow can return to former farmland without a seed packet, though the researchers cannot yet explain how several of its rarer plants got there.
By Natural History · Sep 24, 2026
Round-the-clock cameras at Monarto Safari Park caught a feast-and-fast rhythm in a small group of zoo lions, and a rise in pacing over the study whose daily peaks the authors tie to keeper routines.
By Natural History · Sep 24, 2026
Does time flow backward at the quantum level, and if so, what stops the universe from running in reverse?
By Josh Mitteldorf · Sep 23, 2026
Toxic industrial sites don't have to stay dead—one Massachusetts town transformed a poisoned gasworks into something that generates power instead of peril.
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 23, 2026
When two countries control the world's chocolate supply, a bad monsoon becomes a grocery store crisis.
By Kiran Journals · Sep 23, 2026
Even when wind farms slow their turbines to spare bats, mortality remains stubbornly high—raising hard questions about whether the fix actually works.
By Ainura Kalau · Sep 23, 2026
