2026

The recent planting drive marks only one stage in a restoration process that has taken years of planning. (DVIDS photo) Eight years after California’s Ranch Fire destroyed vast stretches of forest, efforts to restore the landscape are now taking shape, Defence Visual Information Distribution Service reported. This spring, the US Forest Service, along with nonprofit…

Greenland sharks entered popular science writing on the strength of one number, 400 years. Some individuals swimming in the North Atlantic today were alive during Isaac Newton’s lifetime, born centuries before anyone thought to ask how old a shark could get. That figure alone would be enough to make the species a fixture of “strange…

Image: Universities of Alicante and Zaragoza Deep inside a cave in eastern Spain, archaeologists have uncovered one of the largest collections of Roman cave inscriptions ever found. Hidden more than 200 metres from the entrance of Cova Dones near Millares, Valencia, the inscriptions reveal that the underground chamber was not simply a place of worship;…

For nearly six decades, Eddie Smith Jr. devoted his life to rescuing and rebuilding Grady-White Boats, a struggling North Carolina boat manufacturer that was on the verge of bankruptcy when he bought it in 1968. Working up to 100 hours a week, investing his personal savings and sacrificing much of his personal life, Smith transformed…

Forests with more tree species appear to be improving faster over time, according to a new global study published in Nature Climate Change. doi.org/10.1038/s41558-026-02698-7By tracking forest photosynthesis across two decades, researchers found that biodiversity does more than support healthy ecosystems in the present: it also helps forests strengthen their ability to absorb carbon as the…