Researchers are installing 3D-printed artificial reefs on the deep seabed to see whether damaged cold-water coral habitats can be restored. Twenty-three of these structures have been placed off the south-west Porcupine Bank, off Ireland’s west coast, and in the Bay of Biscay, France. The work forms part of the Horizon Europe project REDRESS, which stands…
Image: Puskar Basu/ Discover Wildlife A remarkably elusive Pallas’s cat has chosen an unexpected nursery in the high-altitude village of Hanle in Ladakh. The female entered a local couple’s home through an open window and settled there with three kittens. Farmer Tsering Topgyal and his wife, Palmo, alerted the Forest Department after discovering the wild…
A retired military aircraft has found an unusual second life beneath the Red Sea after Jordan deliberately sank it off Aqaba in 2017 to create an artificial reef. The Lockheed C-130 Hercules, a roughly 30-metre-long military transport aircraft, was placed underwater on November 16, 2017, about 300 metres from the Aqaba shoreline. It now rests…
The property carries significance that extends beyond its ecological value. It was historically part of the Garden River First Nation reserve before colonial-era government reductions altered the community’s original boundaries, explains the online report. At the edge of Echo Lake in northern Ontario, a stretch of forest, wetlands, cliffs and waterways is set to become…
A long-term experiment near Ithaca, New York, has found that white-tailed deer increased the diversity of seeds germinated from the soil and reduced the abundance of woody plants aboveground. According to a study published in PubMed, titled ‘Deer impact seedbanks and plant communities over 18 years of post-agricultural succession’, the deer exclusion experiment began in…
A fossilised leaf from the western Himalaya has preserved a previously unknown fungal species that lived around 12 to 8 million years ago. The fungus, Vizellopsidites miocenicus, was found on a fossilised dicot leaf recovered from the middle Siwalik sediments of Himachal Pradesh.Researchers Sampa Kundu and Mahasin Ali Khan described the species in a study…
Image Credit: Restoring Upland Nature/Website Dame Judi Dench has joined the celebration of a major golden eagle recovery in southern Scotland after the population climbed above 50 individual birds. The actress named one of five fledglings produced this summer as GoldenEye, while fellow actor Sam Heughan named another as Sassy. The young birds are part…
It is reported that the tomb contains the remains of a funerary chapel and a false door, one of the most recognisable features of ancient Egyptian burial architecture. These structures were more than decorative elements. Beneath the ancient landscape of Saqqara, where generations of Egyptians buried their dead, archaeologists have uncovered a tomb that offers…
Henry and Jack GroverRiversideunified.org When Henry and Jack Grover nearly lost their Riverside, California, home to a wildfire, the experience changed the way they thought about fire safety. The identical twins wanted to understand why areas that appear extinguished can still contain hot, smouldering material capable of reigniting days later. Their answer was a sprayable…
Ishaan Dokania, the Indian-origin Beaverton sixth-grader (Image Credit: Society for Science) A sixth-grade student from Oregon is using satellite images and machine learning to explore a problem that is becoming increasingly important as demand for lithium grows. Ishaan Dokania, a sixth-grader at Willamette Valley Academy in Beaverton, is among the 30 finalists in the 2026…
