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The photo was selected from over 50,000 submissions to the Natural History Museum's competition.
These breathtaking images depict the incredible lightning storm that thundered over the Mexican state of Colima earlier this week.
This time lapse montage of SDO photos condenses ten years of observation into an hour-long video in which each second is equal to one day on Earth.
A song that 'went viral' across a bird species has been tracked by scientists showing the white-throated sparrow's new tune is here to stay.
A secluded retreat in South Iceland lets you sleep under a sea twinkling stars entirely enclosed in a glass bubble-and maybe see the aurora borealis.
The Liceu Opera Hall in Barcelona is hosting the Concert for Biocene-a performance of Puccini's "Chrysanthemums" to 2,292 potted plants.
Organizations in France, Holland, and Belgium are planting tiny forests with the famous "Miyawaki method" of reforestation to help restore biodiversity.
The US Fish and Wildlife Service and the Univ. of Illinois created a historic public-private agreement, to protect millions of acres for monarch butterflies.
The Nature Conservancy bought the 419-acre property of Sheep Bridge along the Virgin River near Zion National Park, Utah, to protect it from developement.
Further details of a recently-discovered cave in Wells Gray Prov. Park in British Columbia indicate the opening was revealed by climate warming.
These fuzzy little mysteries of nature have been puzzling scientists since they were discovered atop some Alaskan glaciers, strangely moving in unison.
The unique, community-led Nashulai Maasai Nature Conservancy received donations from 100,000 people on Avaaz to help sustain them through COVID-19.
More than 14,000 photos were submitted to Agora's "World's Best Photos of Spring 2020" competition—and the finalists are breathtaking.
This remarkable video shows a once-in-a-lifetime moment for a lucky whale watcher in Baha, California—petting a baby grey whale.
Austrian designer at Studio Precht has created a maze of green spirals for city parks that let people be in nature, but maintain distancing during COVID-19.
On the empty streets of Rome starved of human food scraps, seagulls are going back to their natural ways, hunting pigeons and rats.
Angela Elsey, a preemie-cuddling volunteer, noticed a hummingbird nest outside her window and filmed the babies for her hugging group stuck in quarantine.
In the UK and France, sidewalk chalk is being used by rebel botanists breaking street-chalking laws to label wild plants and flowers growing through cracks.
The Newtons have created 'Britain's best garden' and grown a spring spectacular bursting with color in Walsall after spending lockdown tending their oasis.
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