Chesapeake Bay SAV grew 7% in 2025 to 89,385 acres—the highest since 2018—driven by salty zones, while tidal fresh areas declined slightly.
Category: Environment
Explore insights on the environment, focusing on sustainability, preservation, and the importance of a clean and healthy planet for future generations.
At Holnicote and in Devon, beavers stored over 24 million liters and, in five U.S. wildfires, streamside vegetation in beaver areas suffered one‑third the damag
Finland data show a usable limit: keep clearcuts near 10% per decade, use ~90-year rotations or set aside one-fifth to keep forest bird numbers stable.
ESA’s FLEX and Sentinel‑3C launch on Vega‑C to track faint plant fluorescence and align it with Earth‑system data via near‑simultaneous tandem observations.
Australia will evacuate 24 staff from Macquarie Island before seal pup season over psychosocial risk from possible H5N1; 341 cases, none in poultry.
Belgian potatoes are “barely the size of ping‑pong balls”—about a quarter of their expected size—raising worries across 4,500 fry shops.
Europe’s record 2026 heat lays out the stressors that squeeze harvests and drive price spikes. Here are the numbers we know—and the gaps that matter.
A 76 km² iceberg just calved from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier. Here’s how cracks grow, how radar satellites caught it, and what happens to the ice next.
A new three-model analysis finds soil microbes may remove 40–45 gigatons of methane per year, far more than earlier estimates, reshaping the global methane budg
In 875 wild farm mice across Germany, about half of livestock resistance genes also turned up—evidence that environment shapes antibiotic resistance in wildlife