I do hope there have been some lessons learned from this 😞 ‘Timmy’ the humpback was very very unwell so pleased he was found to confirm death. 👇🏻
Brazil’s environmental agency approved oil drilling off the mouth of the Amazon River, even though oil company Petrobras considers it “unfeasible” to rescue large animals like #manatees in the event of an oil spill. news.mongabay.com/2026/06/amaz...
Shayanta Chowdhury photographed entomologist Lee Haines viewing a yellow fever mosquito under an ultraviolet light in a laboratory at the University of Notre Dame. #SciArt
Gunnar Hartmann is the overall winner of Nature’s 2026 Scientist at Work photography competition with a photo of two researchers guiding a flock of northern bald ibis on their migration across the fields of Jaén in the south of Spain. go.nature.com/4aERhNI #Academicsky #SciArt 🧪
More winners 👇
Seabed life triples after bottom trawling ban in Scotland protected area
The climate spiral has had a remarkable journey.
It was shown during the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics, watched by 1 billion people.
It is part of The Museum of Modern Art's collection.
Science and art have combined to tell a powerful story of how our planet’s climate is changing rapidly.
Why do some #conservation projects endure? @therevelator.org therevelator.org/reflections-...
tough to overstate how quickly science funding in New Zealand has been blown to pieces - on Friday the NZ govt straight up disbanded the Marsden fund (our version of the NSF)
it'll be replaced by a 'transition fund' with less money and zero information, as of yet, about what it will support
#nzpol
The signals are becoming harder to ignore.
Record ocean temperatures. Melting ice. Rising seas. More extreme weather.
What happens in the polar regions doesn't stay there.
The systems that regulate our climate connect us all.
#WorldEnvironmentDay #NowForClimate
@unep.org
Robert Harcourt captured an image of Michael Doane, a marine biologist, collecting a microbiome sample from a whale shark off the coast of Western Australia. #SciArt
A rare hybrid population faces an oil frontier with a rescue plan that experts call insufficient.