[video] Mahle the chimp received a C-section this week at Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas. Because of low oxygen levels, the infant son received medical treatment before meeting mum. (Saturday November 19th, 2022 — BBC online)

Bonus benefit: Growing kitchen herbs may inspire you to dig into gardening in the spring. "Grow something you love to eat; start by planting something easy, like herbs," says "Farmer D" Daron Joffe, a nationally known biodynamic farmer, educator, and author of Citizen Farmers: The Biodynamic Way to Grow Healthy Food, Build Thriving Communities, and Give Back to the Earth. "Herbs grow virtually any time of year and are low maintenance." (Friday November 18th, 2022 — Yahoo)

Some 140 years after the black-naped pheasant-pigeon was last sighted by scientists, researchers have "rediscovered" the rare bird. After a month of searching, a team in September captured footage of the species deep in the forest of a tiny island off Papua New Guinea. (Friday November 18th, 2022 — BBC online)

On a lake in the Netherlands, a shiny circular island floats, covered in dozens of shimmering solar panels. But this is no normal solar array, nor even simply one of the many new floating solar farms being installed in lakes, reservoirs and coastal areas across the world. That's because its panels are doing something none of these other floating solar farms can do: meticulously tracking and following the Sun as it moves across the sky, to catch as many rays as possible. (Thursday November 17th, 2022 — BBC online)

Hilton announced today the launch of its ‘Wild Spirit Wines of Africa’ Beverage Conservation programme. In collaboration with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in South Africa and Under the Influence, guests can enjoy the best wines and spirits from prolific South African wine farms and spirit distilleries at eleven participating Hilton hotels across Africa and the Indian Ocean (A&IO). The selected wine farms and spirit distilleries champion biodynamic and regenerative farming practices, environmental conservation, and protection of water catchment areas that meet the global best standards in sustainable travel and tourism. (Wednesday November 16th, 2022 — Hospitality Net)

The Rockefeller Foundation has announced grants totaling more than $11 million to 10 organisations working to scale indigenous and regenerative agriculture practices around the world. ... The Foundation also contributes to Indigenous Peoples’ Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Food Systems. (Thursday November 10th, 2022 — MyJoyOnline.com)

Italian archaeologists have unearthed 24 beautifully preserved bronze statues in Tuscany believed to date back to ancient Roman times. (Wednesday November 9th, 2022 — BBC online)

The liquid extract of the Mistletoe plant has been used as an alternative method to treat cancer for close to a century? Mistletoe is one of the most widely researched naturopathic medicines prescribed for cancer patients in Europe? Numerous studies have shown Mistletoe Therapy may enhance cancer patient survival rates, improve quality of life, and reduce the side-effects of chemotherapy and radiation? (Thursday October 20th, 2022 — RiordanClinic.org -, Kansas USA)

The images are meant to be a reminder, not just of the beauty of nature, but of humanity's influence on it. (Thursday October 6th, 2022 — Smithsonian Magazine - Washington DC USA)

[They] thought that they had a five to 10 percent chance of success. To have hundreds of healthy coral now sitting in tanks barely crossed her mind. Conservationists are more attuned to the vibrations of endangerment, extinction, and loss. To have a moonshot succeed is unfamiliar territory. With the impossible now possible, the next hurdle is moving from the lab to the ocean, a leap that not everyone is comfortable with. (Monday October 3rd, 2022 — Smithsonian Magazine - Washington DC USA)

The team concluded that the Maya used cinnabar, a bright red mineral containing mercury, for decorative paints and powders that served ceremonial and religious purposes. The mercury from cinnabar-coated surfaces, like walls and floors, eventually contaminated the local water supply and soil. (Wednesday September 28th, 2022 — Smithsonian Magazine - Washington DC USA)

Now, a new study of past DNA and archaeological remains provides evidence that a sizeable migration occurred from northern Europe to early medieval England (also known by the ahistorical term “Anglo-Saxon England”). (Wednesday September 28th, 2022 — Smithsonian Magazine - Washington DC USA)

Edinburgh is home to some remarkable charitable and third sector organisations. It was an absolute pleasure and honour to visit Garvald on Gorgie Road, which provides day services for adults over the age of 16 with learning disabilities. (Tuesday September 27th, 2022 — Edinburgh News )

Grand Canyon buffalo have also developed some unique behaviors to adapt to their protected home. Though they can weigh between 700 and 2,000 pounds, the bison living at the park have learned to move quietly and stealthily across the landscape, likely to avoid attracting attention to themselves. This behavior has inspired a quirky nickname for them: forest ninja bison. (Tuesday September 27th, 2022 — Smithsonian Magazine - Washington DC USA)

Common Good, a nonprofit non-bank financial institution for community empowerment; Rudolf Steiner Foundation, a donor-advised fund; and 104 local lenders and investors provided earlier contributions. (Tuesday September 27th, 2022 — Greenfield Recorder )

The decline in amphibians likely led to a surge in malaria-spreading mosquitoes, since amphibian tadpoles eat mosquito larvae, according to New Scientist’s Clare Wilson. (Monday September 26th, 2022 — Smithsonian Magazine - Washington DC USA)

After a hand excavation on the lakebed, the craft was carefully transported from Lake Mendota to the State Archive Preservation Facility in Madison for preservation and storage. (Sunday September 25th, 2022 — Daily Kos)

The device uses an F5 PRO quadcopter with a metal detector Klymenko designed suspended underneath it as it flies. A built-in gyroscope detects the effect of wind on the drone. The mine detector can fly for a duration of 20 to 30 minutes and a distance of up to five miles, though these parameters could change with more expensive equipment. (Friday September 23rd, 2022 — Smithsonian Magazine - Washington DC USA)

Biodynamic and organic farming have a lot in common, but according to Osburn, "biodynamic takes it many steps further, and it really focuses on the actual farm itself, like the microcosm. You want to enrich, nourish, and allow your microcosm to thrive, so you're using a lot of local preparations, you're bringing in livestock, you're installing beehives probably, you're planting cover crops to include more diversity, and you really want the soils to speak, you want them to be alive. And that's where it all starts, in the soil. So it's about really making your microcosm thrive with a biodiverse system." (Thursday September 22nd, 2022 — Tasting Table)

Once a niche practice, it is becoming more popular with hobbyists. It focuses on creating optimal conditions for bees to make honey, while also mimicking how Apis mellifera lives in the wild. (Wednesday September 21st, 2022 — Washington Post - Washington DC USA)