Why he loves sharks; the chestnut’s return
 | PHOTOGRAPHS BY THOMAS P. PESCHAK
| | Nat Geo photographer Thomas P. Peschak adores sharks so much he sent his 60-year-old mom into the icy Atlantic in a cage to see great whites up close.
Don't worry; mom loved it.
“For as long as I can remember, I have loved sharks and wanted to share that passion with everyone,” Peschak, also a Nat Geo Explorer, tells us. Here are a few selections from his two decades of shark photography, ahead of the 10th anniversary of National Geographic SharkFest this summer on the National Geographic network and streaming on Disney+. (Pictured above, bold Galápagos sharks investigate his camera near a coral reef.)
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| Sharks galore: Light shines into the lagoon of Bassas da India, a remote atoll west of Madagascar, revealing a gathering of juvenile Galápagos sharks (pictured above left). As Peschak descended, the sharks followed him to the coral reef, waltzing in and out of the light. A whale shark (above right) vacuums up a patch of plankton just below the flippers of snorkeling tourists who flock to the Maldives to observe the world’s largest fish, Peschak writes.
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| | Welcome back, chestnuts: The American chestnut once dominated the forests of the eastern U.S. Legend had it that a squirrel could travel along the canopy from Maine to Georgia and never touch the ground. By the mid-20th century, a deadly blight wiped out the beloved trees. Researchers, however, have developed a blight-tolerant American chestnut, a promising development in the move to save the world’s forests, Sarah Gibbens writes. (A lab worker, pictured above by Nat Geo Explorer Amy Toensing, removes the spiky seed from chestnuts nourished by transgenic pollen.) | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID GUTTENFELDER, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION | | New debates: Lithium mining in Nevada’s desert is helping the nation with renewables, as are wind turbines and solar arrays (pictured above) in California's Mojave Desert. While critically needed to fight climate change, the effort may be putting some endangered species in peril, like the desert tortoise or a wildflower called Tiehm’s buckwheat, Nat Geo reports. The aerial image above was taken by Nat Geo Explorer David Guttenfelder.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY PAT KANE | | Next steps: The widening rejection of furs among fashion buyers is prompting big changes among Indigenous trappers in northern Canada, including efforts to find new occupations. Trapping has been an integral part of Indigenous life in the region, say Chloe Dragon Smith and Robert Grandjambe. “All that we are and what we have comes from the land, and trapping is one way we respect that,” Dragon Smith tells Nat Geo.
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| This was edited and curated by Monica Williams, Heather Kim, and David Beard. Have an idea or a link for us? Let us know at david.beard@natgeo.com. Have a good week ahead! | | | |
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