In 2012, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter photographed a dust devil towering roughly 12 miles above Amazonis Planitia — a whirlwind taller than any tornado on Earth, and one that hinted at the electrified chemistry now being recorded from the Martian surface.
How a Royal Society polymath, a leather-tubed microscope, and a sliver of dead bark gave biology its most fundamental word — and why it took 174 years to figure out what was actually inside a living one.
New Zealand's kākāpō population has climbed from 50 birds in the 1990s to over 200 today, entirely because rats, stoats and cats have been eradicated from three small offshore islands — Whenua Hou, Anchor and Chalky. Here's how removing one pressure lets an 80-million-year-old ecosystem reassemble itself.
Iceland lost more than 95% of its birch forests after Norse settlement in 874 CE, and now plants three to four million trees a year to claw woodland back onto slopes of volcanic ash. Here's how the soil chemistry, the sheep economy, and a century of forestry are rebuilding the least-forested country in Europe.
A single family of beavers on Devon's River Otter built an 80-metre dam holding a million litres, raised the water table by more than a metre, and turned a straightened ditch into a braided wetland storing more carbon than the surrounding forest — the mechanics of how one rodent rehydrates a valley.
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