Water Buffalo Commons, Istanbul, Turkey: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_os0...
CLIMAVORE x Jameel: Water Buffalo Commons
YouTube video by Royal College of Art
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Matthew Ponsford
@interspecies.agency
Journalist writing about nature and culture. MIT Technology Review, BBC, The Guardian, and many more
The way to go 👉🏻 Inside The Lab Growing Mutant Bacteria To Terraform Earth www.noemamag.com/inside-the-l...
Inside The Lab Growing Mutant Bacteria To Terraform Earth | NOEMA
Increasing desertification now means large parts of Earth are becoming inhospitable. Can gene-edited bacteria save our planet from drying out?
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Increasing desertification now means large parts of Earth are becoming inhospitable. Can gene-edited bacteria save our planet from drying out? @interspecies.agency explores. #climate #desertification #syntheticbiology
Inside The Lab Growing Mutant Bacteria To Terraform Earth | NOEMA
Increasing desertification now means large parts of Earth are becoming inhospitable. Can gene-edited bacteria save our planet from drying out?
noemamag.com
@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social I hope you might like this
Noema Magazine@noemamag.com · last wk.Increasing desertification now means large parts of Earth are becoming inhospitable. Can gene-edited bacteria save our planet from drying out? @interspecies.agency explores. #climate #desertification #syntheticbiology
Matthew Ponsford@interspecies.agency · 2w ago"On the high-altitude plains of Tibet, ringed by snowy mountains and buffeted by harsh winds, scientists are hard at work creating horned, fluffy clones. These are Tibetan yaks, designed and cloned in secretive labs more than 4,000 meters above sea level..." 🇨🇳🧪 edition.cnn.com/2026/07/25/c...
"On the high-altitude plains of Tibet, ringed by snowy mountains and buffeted by harsh winds, scientists are hard at work creating horned, fluffy clones. These are Tibetan yaks, designed and cloned in secretive labs more than 4,000 meters above sea level..." 🇨🇳🧪 edition.cnn.com/2026/07/25/c...
What’s horned, fluffy, and ethically dubious? Yak clones | CNN
On the high-altitude plains of Tibet, ringed by snowy mountains and buffeted by harsh winds, scientists are hard at work creating horned, fluffy clones.
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New piece about a recent paper available from the Conversation: theconversation.com/unhoused-peo... @theconversation.com
Unhoused people and wildlife are increasingly coming into contact. Here’s what can be done to protect them
Unhoused people face the risk of contracting disease from wild animals, while animals can be displaced by human presence.
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New story from @kevinrennie.bsky.social about the Brewarrina fish traps #Australia: "It has been suggested that these fish traps may be the oldest human construction in the world, dating back thousands of years." globalvoices.org/2026/07/14/a...
Australia’s Brewarrina fish traps may be the oldest human construction in the world
They remain a remarkable example of Aboriginal innovation... and form one part of a growing body of work that challenges how hunter-gatherer Australian societies have long been perceived.
globalvoices.org
The movie holds up. As does this great anecdote courtesy of Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum.
@petrathepostdoc.bsky.social I read this important news that bumblebees have OPINIONS www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Do bees have inner lives? Slow-motion video reveals bumblebee behaviour similar to ‘liking’ or ‘disliking’
Bees respond to tasty treats or plain water based on context, a study that may provide support for establishing insect sentience shows
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5/ Winner: Environmental Reporting, Flora and Fauna for “How To Build A Thousand-Year-Old Tree” by @interspecies.agency
How To Build A Thousand-Year-Old Tree | NOEMA
A set of experimental techniques and technologies that might seem harmful to trees is actually helping ancient forests survive.
noemamag.com
1/ Noema is honored to share that we won 23 awards from the LA Press Club over the weekend! We had 6 first-place, 11 second-place & 7 third-place winners this year, including our own Editor-In-Chief Nathan Gardels! Check out all the award-winning work below ⬇️
This story has just won the Flora & Fauna category at the 68th Southern California Journalism Awards. Thank you to everyone @noemamag.com and @lapressclub.bsky.social. And, most importantly, to everyone who told me how oaks live and die
Matthew Ponsford@interspecies.agency · 2mo agoThe Major Oak has died. Last year I had the chance to inspect this phenomenon up close. Despite our ingenious efforts, we cannot rebuild ancient oaks and the habitat they provide to other species www.noemamag.com/how-to-build...
I had a pretty intense experience deep beneath the North Sea, which I wrote about here for @technologyreview.com's new Engineering issue. Involves explosions, Norwegians and darkness. www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/22/1...
Inside the world’s deepest and longest subsea road tunnel
Norway’s Rogfast is an exceptional engineering feat, opening a route for drivers deep below the North Sea. We went down to see it.
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My first publication! Grateful to have had the opportunity to work on this with such an amazing and global team – and good fun to work the on the press and social media releases.
FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology@africanornithology.bsky.social · 2mo ago🐜🐟🐦🐬👩🔬 What does it take for completely different species to work together? A global team of researchers explores the communication behind remarkable cross-species partnerships in a new review in Animal Behaviour. 📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.an... #AfricanOrnithology
The Major Oak has died. Last year I had the chance to inspect this phenomenon up close. Despite our ingenious efforts, we cannot rebuild ancient oaks and the habitat they provide to other species www.noemamag.com/how-to-build...
How To Build A Thousand-Year-Old Tree | NOEMA
A set of experimental techniques and technologies that might seem harmful to trees is actually helping ancient forests survive.
noemamag.com
Albania's 'Flamingo Revolution' holds important lessons for anyone involved in the conservation of nature Legal protection of the Vjosa-Narta Wetlands didn't protect them, but taking to the streets might Formal conservation mechanisms are vital, but it's often social movements that *defend* nature
Where you'll see a rare bird. Thanks to @ryanfm.bsky.social's newsletter for teaching me about the Cabanis's ground-sparrow that lives behind the walmart
Never pass up a chance to share this story. There's always someone who hasn't heard it, always someone waiting to experience the joy of reading about it for the first time.
Doug Mack@douglasmack.bsky.social · 2mo agoOne of my favorite Cabo Verde facts is that it has a genre of music that arose after an abandoned ship washed up in 1968, carrying hundreds of keyboards and synths
Global topsoil contains ~110 quadrillion km of fungal threads, roughly one billion times the distance from the Earth to the Sun. A new study in @science.org maps this hidden arbuscular mycorrhizal infrastructure for the first time. Explore the Mycorrhizal Infrastructure Map: buff.ly/PISOj8k
A hidden infrastructure
Mapping Earth’s underground mycorrhizal fungal networks — the hidden infrastructure beneath our feet.
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NEWS: RSPB acquires Bass Rock and Craigleith islands markavery.info/2026/06/09/s... @rspb.bsky.social @scottishbirding.bsky.social @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social #gannet #forth #seabird #scotland
One of the sneaky feedback loops which renforce climate change is the replacement of ecological communities that remove carbon (like kelp) with others (like ascidians), which release greenhouse gases, due to warming. 🧪🌊 Link: https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lno.70154
NEW PAPER, JUST OUT! 👀 Insects from the '70s and '80s were already collecting microplastic, decades before the term microplastic even existed. 🤯 A thread on the surprising history of this pollutant and the incredible insect larvae that helped us uncover it. 🐛 Let's dive in! 🧵👇 1/x
“These beds certainly harbor far more diversity than currently recognized.” https://scim.ag/4uEBWVH
Brazil’s ‘rolling stone reefs’ teem with hidden diversity, DNA reveals
Vast offshore habitats face threats including mining, trawling, and drilling for oil
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"Mosses are just one part of Britain's complex biodiversity. But as our nature is classed amongst the most depleted in the world, with one in six species at risk of extinction, discovering a control on habitat destruction is a cause for hope." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Killer fungus discovered that destroys UK invasive plant
A newly discovered species raises hope that some native British habitats could be restored.
bbc.co.uk
Do non-US sports have stories like this to tell (and we're just not telling them)? Or is there just something about American sports that lends itself to this kind of lovable eccentricity? www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
Inside the Shaolin monastery that helped build Victor Wembanyama
Here's how monks in central China helped turn Victor Wembanyama into what he has now become: the most unstoppable force in basketball.
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ok this* is getting ridiculous *investors search for things that are AI boom-riding-coat-tails China’s lab-grown diamonds are emerging as a surprising beneficiary of the AI boom www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The first white-tailed eagle to fledge in Dorset for more than 240 years has gone missing on the North York Moors “The disappearance is being treated as suspicious” “Birds of prey regularly go missing in areas associated with game shooting” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rare white-tailed eagle disappearance investigated by police
The satellite-tagged bird, part of a breeding programme, lost contact in the North York Moors.
bbc.co.uk
What makes a coffee landscape full of birds? Is it how farms are managed, or how much forest is left around them? Read our latest paper in @jappliedecology.bsky.social and find out! And stay tuned for more news. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @selvaorgco.bsky.social
