Emli Bendixen

1 month ago | blog.nature.org | Jenny Rogers |Emli Bendixen |Justine E Hausheer |Matthew Miller

When Rob Cunningham was growing up in Norfolk, England, he would sometimes go fishing with a friend on the banks of a river where the water was crystal clear. “I was a rubbish fisherman,” he says. “I never really caught any, but I’d see loads of trout.” The spot on the River Wensum was idyllic, he says, with strands of water-crowfoot—a kind of ranunculus—blooming on the water’s surface.