The Indigenous Earth Fund recently awarded $1 million to Native-led projects that aim to restore the planet. Indigenous groups working to restore salmon, support climate-resilient buffalo ranching, promote youth stewardship of land and water, protect sacred sites, and much more will receive a total of $1 million in funding for their work through the Indigenous Earth Fund, the Decolonizing Wealth Project announced October 12.
Happy Eco News The Soil Carbon Sponge Opens a New Path to Cooling the Planet The soil carbon sponge could help cool the planet, a new report argues, by restoring the hydrological system that healthy soil once provided for billions of years.
Juan Mayorga smiled as a stingray glided across his computer screen, moving gracefully over the seabed near Portugal's Desertas Islands, part of the Madeira archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean. This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies .
How This Artist Uses Light and Time To Transform Photographic Paper Into Luminous Art [Interview] For artist Rachelle Bussières, photography begins where the camera ends. Working primarily with black-and-white silver gelatin paper, the French-Canadian artist creates camera-less works that allow light, time, and physical gesture to shape the image.
Happy Eco News How Eco-Friendly Pest Control Saves Money and Protects Local Ecosystems How Eco-Friendly Pest Control Saves Money and Protects Local Ecosystems Readers of this site tend to think in systems. A beaver dam that restores a creek, a wildlife crossing that saves panthers, a court that grants fish legal standing, these stories share a common thread: small, deliberate interventions ripple outward into healthier ecosystems. Pest control
Previously Uninhabited Island in Seoul Just Hit a Major Milestone and Is Now Open to the Public In October 2025, architecture firm Heatherwick Studio broke ground on Nodeul Island in Seoul, South Korea. The year before, the firm had won a competition to redevelop a man-made, uninhabited island on the Han River and transform it into a place that celebrates culture and recreation. The project, titled Soundscape, recently hit a major milestone.
S. Navy divers captured underwater imagery of the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield. In the months after, the agency measured whether the thermal protection system effectively safeguarded the crew and Orion systems as the spacecraft reentered Earth’s atmosphere. This rigorous analysis confirmed that the
Wastewater reclamation is increasingly regarded as an alternative water source to mitigate water scarcity in China. However, expanding wastewater treatment capacity alone may not be enough to ease this scarcity, since wastewater supply, treatment facilities and reuse demand are not always geographically aligned.
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N. biodiversity summit, researchers are highlighting a conservation approach that recognizes places where nature thrives beyond conventional protected areas. This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies .
Artist Charlotte Evans Reflects on the Meaning of “Home” and Explores Migration Through Colorful Nature Paintings British painter Charlotte Evans creates nature-inspired oil paintings filled with rich colors and bold shapes, giving her work a look that’s almost like stained glass. Eleven of her latest paintings are now being exhibited in her second solo show, I Sing to the Birds Who Sing For Us, at Marrow Gallery in San Francisco.
A new study led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) provides the most comprehensive observational analysis yet of the towering ice cliffs that fringe Earth's ice sheets, giving scientists new evidence to evaluate a long-debated process that could influence future sea level rise. Improving these projections is increasingly important as rising seas threaten coastal communities and infrastructure worldwide.
A phenomenon rarer than a solar eclipse and more powerful than any single storm system is unfolding this fall, and NASA is tracking it closely. El Niño is a natural climate pattern that emerges roughly every two to seven years marked by warmer-than-normal water temperatures in parts of the equatorial Pacific. NASA scientists are keeping
K-Pop Singer Rosé of BLACKPINK To Perform at LACMA’s 2026 Art+Film Gala Over the last few years, singer Rosé has proved to be a captivating pop star, both with her participation in the K-pop juggernaut BLACKPINK and as a solo artist.
Registration is open for the 2026 NASA Space Apps Challenge, a two-day global event on Saturday, Nov. 14 and Sunday, Nov. 15, where teams work to create solutions inspired by NASA’s most ambitious exploration goals and making use of the agency’s free and open data. The annual challenge, often called a hackathon, is an intensive,
S. institutions to receive $12 million to accelerate academic research and technology development in support of the agency’s priorities for exploring the Moon, Mars, and deep space. Through NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) Space Technology Artemis Research (M‑STAR) initiative, selected institutions will each receive up to $1 million
"This year's winning photographs demonstrate the extraordinary power of wildlife photography to help us see nature differently," says Dr. Doug Gurr, Director of the Natural History Museum. Federico Veronesi received the top honor of the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year for his poignant black-and-white image of a female elephant carrying her deceased calf.
20 years after a Washington state dam was slated for demolition, 1,100 acres of ecosystem along the Lower Elwha River is recovering, having lain muddy and dormant under the dam’s engorged reservoir for more than a century. And now, 171 years after the land left their hands, and 114 years after it was flooded, the
NASA’s Artemis II mission sent four astronauts around the Moon and brought them safely back to Earth, laying a foundation for crewed flights to the Moon’s surface. Additional engineering data analysis of the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield confirmed initial data showing the heat shield performed as expected. In particular, NASA measured whether the thermal protection
SEGA Celebrates 35th Anniversary With a $21,000 ‘Sonic the Hedgehog’ Figure Made With Synthetic DNA For Sonic the Hedgehog’s 35th anniversary, SEGA is celebrating in a way that feels appropriately futuristic. The company has teamed up with Japanese science collective LOM BABY to create a $21,000 Sonic figure that contains synthetic DNA designed around the character’s most recognizable traits.
Photographer Jaime Rojo Celebrates the Extraordinary Lives of Monarch Butterflies in New Photo Book The monarch butterfly is beloved for its striking orange and black wings. Now, the creature, regularly found in gardens, is receiving the spotlight it well deserves. A large-format coffee table book published by National Geographic features over 140 images captured by photographer Jaime Rojo.
About a decade ago, a group of climate scientists described five scenarios for the future. Called the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs), these scenarios suggest how socioeconomic development could evolve in worlds with differing challenges to climate adaptation and mitigation.
This story was originally published in the Daily Yonder. com. For Michael Sayen, visiting the local library after hours is a great way to get work done, or seek respite from the weather, regardless of what day it is. “We just had Labor.
By 2025, 143 of 154 developing countries had a National Adaptation Plan process in place, yet implementation has not kept pace. Many countries still lack the institutional capacity, project preparation and finance needed to turn their priorities into strategies, bankable projects and results on the ground.