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Species, biomes, and conservation stories—from alpine plants to coral reefs. See how life adapts to place.
A biome is a broad ecological grouping associated with characteristic life and environmental conditions. An ecosystem includes organisms, their nonliving surroundings and the interactions among them. A habitat…
Imagine palm-like forests and crocodile relatives living far closer to the poles than today—and seas warm enough to reshape currents worldwide. That’s the Eocene: a long stretch of…
On most world maps, Lake Baikal looks narrow and remote. In reality, it is a giant rift lake in southern Siberia whose depth, age, clarity, and endemic wildlife…
If you draw a band across Alaska, Canada, Scandinavia and Siberia, you trace one of Earth’s most important habitats: the taiga. This subarctic forest stores enormous amounts of…
Imagine looking out of an airplane window as you fly over northern Canada or Siberia. For hundreds of miles (hundreds of kilometers), you see dark green forests, and…
Bees don’t all live the same length of time. A worker honey bee hatched in July might last only a few weeks, while a “winter bee” lives for…
The scent of fermenting chakvad (grape must) rising from buried qvevri is part of Georgia’s wine identity, but the country’s deeper distinction is its extraordinary vine diversity. Saperavi…
If you’ve ever pictured a “big ant” as something the size of a grain of rice, the world’s giants will reset your scale fast. But here’s the reason…
Khudadov Forest is a planted urban woodland on Tbilisi’s left-bank slopes, with a history that reaches from nineteenth-century greening to revolutionary memorials and present-day restoration. Named for physician…
The hyacinth macaw is the longest among living parrot species, while the kākāpō is the heaviest. Both are remarkable birds, but they hold different size records. Comparing their…
