Top Nature Stories of 2025

Here are the headlines from 2025 concerning Nature:

Conservation Wins

1. Green Sea Turtles are no longer endangered thanks to conservation.
2. The Iberian Lynx is now the fast recovering cat species.
3. Major whale populations rebound as almost all countries have put a ban on whaling.
4. An additional 2% of global oceans are now protected because of additional agreements made this year.

Science and Natural History Discovery

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1. Discovery of deep-sea ecosystems beneath the Antarctic ice shelves - once believed to be barren, now believed to hold clues on intergalactic life.
2. Scientists from Japan have discovered and tested plastic that dissolves in seawater leaving no traces of even microplastics.
3. New species from orchid, to frogs, to anacondas are discovered as DNA testing is brought to the most remote parts of the earth.

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Climate Change Stories

1. 2025 was the 3rd warmest year on record.
2. Massive wildfires in the Mediterranean, wildfires in much of the midwest of North America, Hurricane Melissa, and severe flooding in Southeast Asia are all believed to be caused or exacerbated by the effects of humans.
3. Arctic permafrost is now thawing, accelerating temperature rise, as methane releases from the ground.
4. Glaciers are at an all time low.
5. COP 30 - the second largest climate conference ever - neglected to detail a road map away from fossil fuels

I wish you the happiest of 2026.