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Crisis? What crisis?
The Reform-controlled unitary authority of North Northants has rescinded the climate emergency declaration made five years ago, presumably because its reading of the science means that despite increasing floods and droug…
Guest blog – Wildlife Crime and the First Few Minutes by Paul Bateman
Paul Bateman is Founder and Principal Instructor of the Independent Wildlife Crime Investigators & Trainers Association. He is a former National Park Ranger, has completed the National Police Wildlife Crime Officers Cour…
NATURE’s “Sesame Street and the Great Elephant Adventure” Reading List
Local PBS stations are partnering with libraries across the country to bring Sesame Street and the Great Elephant Adventure to children and families. They’ve shared their favorite books about elephants, Kenya, wildlife a…
Want to Save the Planet? Try Engineering.
When most people imagine wildlife conservation, they picture volunteers rescuing a sea turtle from a tangled fishing net in the middle of the ocean or protecting wildlife corridors in Africa to connect isolated elephant …
Following the Bees
The smoke floating around me smelled of campfire, grass, and burnt leaves. “Give me a puff or two here,” my father said, pointing his gloved hand at the top of the open beehive. I squeezed the triangular bellows and a pu…
What the World Can Learn from Mongolia’s Drylands
When Kh. Otgonbayar looks across the Gobi, she sees a landscape she is deeply committed to protecting. But she also sees how quickly it is changing. Otgonbayar leads the Temuulel Community-Based Organization, a group of …
Empowering Local Women in Conservation
There is an invisible thread connecting Mombasa, Kenya and the coast of East Africa with Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and the vast Gobi Desert—in terms of global conservation and my own journey; let me explain. In June, my Wil…
Ghosts
The show takes a spooky turn as we go on a ghost hunt through the natural world. Sebastian shares his adventures finding fossils – the traces of animals that once lived, and Rutendo talks about her experiences in The Cra…
Order and chaos
The difference between order and chaos can depend on your perspective. The systems and processes that drive the natural world might seem random in close-up, whether it’s an ant wandering around near its nest, or a wildeb…
Rhythm
Sebastian is not afraid to admit that he lacks natural rhythm. But Rutendo thinks he’s too hard on himself – perhaps the world is just out of sync with him. Besides, every living thing is built upon natural rhythms, from…
Individuals
In an age of individualism, sometimes we are more connected than we think. And the same is true for everything on the planet. Rutendo and Sebastian explore the question of how and why we define an individual, a colony, o…
Threat
It’s a scary world out there, as we explore how everything on the planet – from humankind to glaciers – must be able to respond to threat in order to survive. Sebastian surprises Rutendo with a story of the time he lived…
Reflections
Light and reflection are crucial across the animal kingdom, and sometimes they interact in strange and surprising ways. Rutendo tells Sebastian about the time she carried out a classic experiment, the mirror test, with…