In March, pictures of cherry blossoms—Japan’s famous pinkish-white flowers—flood the Internet. People travel long distances to see these flowers, drawn by the vibrancy they bring to the season. Cherry blossoms are also among the most...
2024 has offered spectacular light shows to millions of people worldwide with astonishing auroras. Usually visible in the Poles, Aurora Borealis (northern lights) or Aurora Australis (southern lights) have recently wandered far beyond these locations. ...
The saola, also known as the ‘Asian Unicorn,’ was the most surprising zoological discovery of the 20th century. It earned this nickname as this enigmatic species remains widely unknown, with little known about its behaviour...
2024 was the hottest calendar year yet, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed in January. Not only that, the average global temperature exceeded 1.5°C above the pre-industrial baseline for the first time, pushing the Earth’s...
In April 2024, a study conducted by researchers from the Australian National University painted a worrying picture of the future. The findings revealed that Australia could soon experience megadroughts lasting over 20 years. Months later,...
The climate apocalypse isn’t looming; it’s here and we are living it. The Los Angeles wildfire catastrophe, which has claimed 28 lives, destroyed at least 16,255 structures, and scorched over 57,529 acres of land, has...
2024 was full of surprises in the natural world. From finding Van Gogh’s famous painting in nature, the surprising discovery of a blob-headed fish in a human-dominated region, to stumbling upon a new species of...