For over a century, one of the most important salmon runs in the U.S. has had to contend with historic dams in Oregon and California. These dams have been responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands... continue reading

posted by newtboy 1 year 3 months 3 weeks ago • 134 views • 3:07

Ipley Cross, in the middle of the New Forest, is one of the most dangerous road junctions in Britain. Why? • Thanks to Bez, whoever you are: their definitive article on this junction is here: https://singletrackworld.c... continue reading

posted by eric3579 2 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 620 views • 4:12

In the fast-flowing streams of eastern Tennessee, Emilly Nolan is working hard to reestablish a population for a strange looking animal with an even stranger array of nicknames. The Eastern hellbender—aka... continue reading

posted by newtboy 2 years 7 months 1 week ago • 98 views • 6:51

Warmer Pacific temperatures are decimating kelp forests, the most diverse and important ecosystems off the West coast. Without these nurseries for ocean fish, their populations are due to collapse quickly.

posted by newtboy 2 years 11 months 2 weeks ago • 368 views • 11:07

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I... continue reading

posted by Joe Motion (lurgee) 3 years 2 months 1 week ago • 166 views • 20:41

YouTube description: This millipede uses deadly cyanide gas to keep predators at bay. But one beetle can tolerate the toxic defense and rides the millipede like a bucking bronco. Who will win this showdown... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 3 years 3 months 3 weeks ago • 336 views • 4:33

In the last few years, wildfires have been getting worse - and, oddly, it's because humans have been preventing them. From a helicopter above the forests of British Columbia, and from the Tree Ring Lab... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 4 years 1 month ago • 124 views • 3:46

The landscape of Iceland has changed a lot in a thousand years. When the Vikings first arrived in the ninth century, the land was covered in 25 to 40 percent forest. Within a few centuries, almost all... continue reading

posted by newtboy 4 years 7 months ago • 800 views • 5:22

YouTube description: Programme website: http://bbc.in/2CHzXJj A rusty spotted cat, the world's smallest cat, explores his forest home in Sri Lanka, but his natural curiosity is destined to get him into... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 4 years 7 months 1 week ago • 891 views • 1:58

https://youtu.be/Zm6X77ShHa8 Beavers have done more to shape North American landscapes than any animal beside humans. We don’t notice them much today because there aren’t many left, but before colonization,... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 3 weeks ago • 1,121 views • 5:19

YouTube: Deep in the forests of New Guinea there is a rich variety of life, each more bizarre than the last. One such spectacle is the male Bird of Paradise who appears to go to extraordinary lengths to... continue reading

posted by PlayhousePals 5 years 4 months 3 weeks ago • 245 views • 3:24

Via YouTube: Incredible view of the western world from the mind of a small tribe living in the Amazon rain forest.

posted by Gratefulmom 5 years 5 months ago • 1,298 views • 6:30

"What is this? A forest for ANTS?! Deep Look: https://youtu.be/fguo3HvWjb0 ..." From http://www.reddit.com/r/ants/comments/5apoyx/its_okay_to_be_smart_weve_got_ants_in_our_plants/ ...

posted by ant 5 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 201 views • 7:03

YouTube description: Conceived in the open sea, tiny spaceship-shaped sea urchin larvae search the vast ocean to find a home. After this incredible odyssey, they undergo one of the most remarkable transformations... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 5 years 11 months 4 weeks ago • 658 views • 3:23

I built this grass hut up on a ridge. It's roughly parallel with the tiled hut and wattle and daub hut that are a couple of hundred meters away down in a valley. I built it on a ridge to get away from... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 563 views • 4:17

Bears, Beets, Battlestar Galactica

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 373 views • 2:11

Cooking and leaching Black bean to remove the poison making it safe to eat. A basket was made to leach the poison out in a stream. Also shown are Atherton Oak nuts. The Aboriginal artifacts found near... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 2 months 2 weeks ago • 299 views • 4:51

My 11 year old shared this with me, telling me he wished he was growing up where this would have been available to him. Via YouTube: Kids Gone Wild: looking at life in kindergarten… Danish-style

posted by Gratefulmom 6 years 4 months 1 week ago • 1,518 views • 10:40

I made this bow and arrow using only primitive tools and materials.The bow is 1.25 m (55 inches) long and shoots 60 cm (2 feet) long arrows. I don't know the draw weight - safe to say greater than 15 kg... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 6 years 4 months 2 weeks ago • 620 views • 5:54

Salamanders are a major link in the food web, and measured by weight, there can be more salamander biomass than all mammals and birds combined in a forest. Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bs or Bsal),... continue reading

posted by newtboy 6 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 111 views • 3:12