ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE

Young Minds Aim To End Climate Change

ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATE 03.30.2019 08:36 AM

A new generation of young minds is becoming more interested to put a stop to the harsh effects of climate change. How can we help to save their future?

Scientists Thought it was just a Common Bird, Study Proves it is a New Species

03.30.2019 08:34 AM

For the past 100 years, the Cream-vented Bulbul were seen to have either red eyes or white eyes and was considered a trivial matter until now.

Australia Suffers From Garbage Crisis

03.30.2019 08:33 AM

India bans the importation of trash from countries around the world including Australia and this ban has caused a garbage crisis in the land down under.

Climate Change Threatens “Doomsday Vault”

03.30.2019 08:31 AM

The Global Seed Vault also is known as the Doomsday Vault is now threatened by the harsh effects of climate change.

66-million-year-old deathbed linked to dinosaur-killing meteor

03.29.2019 14:48 PM

Fossil site preserves animals killed within minutes of meteor impact The beginning of the end started with violent shaking that raised giant waves in the waters of an inland sea in what is now North Dakota.

The Cane Toad Menace in Florida

03.28.2019 19:51 PM

It was in Florida's Palm Beach Gardens that the first of the few cane toads appeared, and soon it had turned into a virtual exodus of baby toads. Photographs show that at first a small body of these amphibian creatures thronged a swimming pool, scrambled up the walls, before filling the whole hallway of a house, so countless and vast that people residing in the area called for help. Soon these invasive toads found a comfortable home in pleasant Southern Florida.

Study Shows Air Pollution Causes Psychotic Behavior

03.28.2019 16:17 PM

Living in a polluted area could cause psychotic behaviors according to a new study. (Photo : David Lee) Every day, the world is being warned of the dangers caused by air pollution.

Greenland Glacier, Jakobshavn, is Growing and it's a Ticking Time Bomb

03.28.2019 09:22 AM

The fastest thinning glacier has started to revert and as natural water cycles in the sea cooled down water at certain depths.

Could African Elephants be leaving behind an identifiable trait to preserve their species?

03.28.2019 08:28 AM

Elephants are undergoing a species saving evolution—no tusks! Living organisms have been evolving for billions of years. It's a process that usually isn't noticeable within a generation, but elephants at the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Africa, are evolving right before our eyes and the reason is perseverance.

Microplastics Found In Creatures From The Deep Ocean

03.28.2019 08:06 AM

The deeper they looked, the more plastic they found and it has reached the deepest parts of the ocean.

New Mexico Suffers From Effects Of Renewable Energy

03.28.2019 08:04 AM

Locals of New Mexico are now suffering the harsh effects of going for renewable sources of energy. The residents on the border of US and Mexico are concerned that the geothermal project as a form of a renewable source of energy may put their water source at a risk.

Microplastics Cause Major Problems in the Trenches

03.28.2019 07:58 AM

A team of scientists found man-made microfibers in the stomachs of crustaceans from the deepest trenches in the seas.

NASA Has New Evidence That Mars’ Atmosphere Could Possibly Host Life

03.27.2019 10:57 AM

A recent study sheds a new light on Mars' atmosphere. With the Solar System being nearly 3. 8 billion years old, it's not so much a stretch to imagine one of our sister planets once being habitable.

Droughts could hit aging power plants hard

03.27.2019 09:46 AM

Warmer, lower rivers from climate change might leave some US power plants high and dry DURHAM, N. C. -- Older power plants with once-through cooling systems generate about a third of all U.

In the tree of life, youth has its advantages

03.27.2019 09:38 AM

It's a question that has captivated naturalists for centuries: Why have some groups of organisms enjoyed incredibly diversity--like fish, birds, insects--while others have contained only a few species--like humans.

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