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Pressure ridges of Antarctic sea ice near Scott Base under a pale sky
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Above Antarctica, the sky is mending

Every September a hole opens in the sky above Antarctica. It is now among the smallest it has been since the early nineties.

2 September 2026 · 2 min read
Oyster beds exposed at low tide at Whitstable on the English coast
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Norfolk is growing a reef again

Off the Norfolk coast this month, clay bricks began going down on the seabed. Each one arrives already carrying more than a hundred baby oysters.

2 September 2026 · 2 min read
The Dajomes glassfrog, pea green with gold ringed eyes, facing the camera
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A glass frog with an Olympic name

In a cloud forest reserve in Ecuador, a young biologist has found a frog new to science, green as a leaf above and see through below, and named her for the first Ecuadorian woman ever to win Olympic gold.

29 August 2026 · 2 min read
A gentoo penguin leaping through bright blue water with splashes flying
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What a penguin sees when diving

Scientists in Antarctica fitted tiny cameras to penguins for a single day, and came back with the whole blue world.

29 August 2026 · 2 min read
A swimmer in the sea at sunrise, one arm lifted mid stroke against a golden sky.
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Thursday belongs to the Silver Salties

Surf Life Saving Australia's Silver Salties has brought more than three thousand people back to the beach. As the new season opens, the clubs want you.

26 August 2026 · 2 min read
A North Atlantic right whale and her calf at the surface of blue water, seen from above, the mother’s blow still hanging in
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For the tenth year, the ships give way

A whale called Goldfish turned up outside an office window in Newfoundland, and out in the Gulf a whole seaway is slowing down for her kind.

23 August 2026 · 2 min read
A Colombian Chachalaca, a large brown bird found only in Colombia, perched in tropical dry forest
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In Ambalema, the birds are the future

A colonial town on Colombia’s great river, one hundred and sixty three bird species on its doorstep, and a manual for turning one into the other.

23 August 2026 · 1 min read
One tiny marsupial turned out to be four
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One tiny marsupial turned out to be four

The long-tailed planigale, one of the smallest marsupials on earth, has just been sorted into four separate species, and one of them is brand new.

19 August 2026 · 2 min read