Plus, why are seashells harder to find?
 | PHOTOGRAPHS BY OLIVIER GRUNEWALD
| | How do we show the Earth’s origins and development from images of the world today? A French photographer has traveled the globe to capture the forces that shaped this planet: spewing volcanoes, dancing polar auroras, and fledgling life-forms.
From Olivier Grunewald’s lens, made over the past three decades, we see the yellow-and-green landscape where life likely began in Ethiopia (above), and these pregnant, diamond-like droplets on water moss in a Brazilian rainforest (below). Grunewald’s goal: to deepen appreciation and love for this big blue ball.
“It took 4.5 billion years to forge this lush, bountiful, and welcoming planet,” Grunewald tells us. “Now what will we do?”
See the images and full story here.
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 | | ILLUSTRATION BY SIMONE NORONHA | | | Climate anxiety: Millennials are more worried than their parents were about bringing a child into the world. Perhaps that’s not surprising, given that they’ve grown up with more environmental concerns. They also face vexing choices on whether to move to a cooler region or in farming communities that face drought. But as Richard Schiffman writes, young people are learning to turn all that anxiety into action. | | | |
 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY AGAMI PHOTO AGENCY, ALAMY | | | |
| The gardeners of Gabon: In Gabon’s Lopé National Park, the doughnut-shaped fruit of the Omphalocarpum procerum grows on its branches and trunk, which is common for rainforest trees. Scientists believe it’s an adaptation to promote pollination by insects found in the trees. Only elephants have jaws strong enough to crack open the hard, thick shells, swallowing—and passing—the intact seeds and making them more likely to germinate. But researchers have discovered that Earth’s warming temperatures could be lowering the fruit yield of many trees, which in turn seems to be causing forest elephants to go hungry, Nat Geo reports.
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 | | PHOTOGRAPH BY GEORGE STEINMETZ | | Sustainable tourism: We hear the term all the time but what does it really mean? The good news is that Americans say they want to travel responsibly, even if they aren’t quite sure what it means or how to do it. Here are 12 tips from Nat Geo on how to travel more sustainably. (Pictured above, coral reforestation on desolated reefs around Landaa Giraavaru Island in the Maldives.)
Related: Planning a camping trip? Try these eco-friendly tips
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| Today’s newsletter was edited and curated by Monica Williams, Heather Kim, Jen Tse, and David Beard. Have an idea or feedback for us? Drop us a line. | | | |
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