Climate
The glaciers keeping a record of our warming world
Ice cores drilled from the high Alps preserve centuries of atmosphere. As the glaciers shrink, scientists race to read the archive before it disappears.
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Climate
How small towns are rewriting the energy map
Community-owned wind and solar projects are quietly reshaping rural economies — and proving that the transition can be both local and profitable.
Wildlife
The return of the lynx to Europe's forests
After a century of absence, the elusive Eurasian lynx is padding back into ancient woodlands. We follow the trackers documenting its quiet comeback.
Wildlife
Counting the pollinators that feed the world
From bees to hoverflies, citizen scientists are mapping the insects our food depends on — and finding both alarming losses and surprising hope.
Oceans
Inside the race to save the world's coral reefs
Marine biologists are breeding heat-tolerant corals in floating nurseries, betting that science can outpace the next mass bleaching event.
Oceans
The deep-sea explorers mapping a hidden world
More than eighty percent of the ocean floor remains uncharted. A new generation of robotic submersibles is finally bringing the abyss into view.
Forests
The secret language of the forest floor
Beneath every woodland lies a vast fungal network trading water, carbon and warnings between trees. Ecologists are only beginning to decode it.
Forests
Rewilding a continent, one hedgerow at a time
Across Europe, farmers and conservationists are letting land return to wood and scrub — and discovering that wild places can pay their own way.
Climate
Living with drought in a thirstier century
As rainfall grows erratic, communities from the Sahel to southern Spain are reinventing how they store, share and value every drop of water.