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November 13th, 2024 00:17:08 EST -0500 Runaway 'spy whale' fled Russian military training says marine scientist Marine scientist uncovers the story behind Andruha's escape from Russian military training programme. |
November 11th, 2024 11:00:05 EST -0500 New study on moons of Uranus raises chance of life The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the sterile worlds scientists have long thought. |
November 8th, 2024 19:08:27 EST -0500 Somebody moved UK's oldest satellite, and no-one knows who or why Britain's oldest satellite is in the wrong part of the sky, but no-one's really sure who moved it. |
November 8th, 2024 01:06:28 EST -0500 COP29 chief exec filmed promoting fossil fuel deals Undercover filming shows COP29 chief exec discussing new oil and gas projects ahead of climate summit. |
November 6th, 2024 22:22:24 EST -0500 This year set to be first to breach 1.5C global warming limit It is also set to be the world's first breach of 1.5C of warming across an entire calendar year. |
November 6th, 2024 22:11:16 EST -0500 Trump victory is a major setback for climate action, experts say Trump's election will hit immediate efforts to tackle climate change, experts say - but the longer-term effect is less certain. |
November 11th, 2024 07:05:38 EST -0500 Skies to clear for Taurid meteor shower peak on Monday The Northern Taurids are at their peak on 11-12 November - but will the clouds part to let us see them? |
November 2nd, 2024 11:57:03 EDT -0400 Politicians not ambitious enough to save nature, say scientists Representatives of 196 countries have been meeting in Cali, Colombia, as part of the COP biodiversity summit. |
October 31st, 2024 00:27:46 EDT -0400 Deadliest weather made worse by climate change - scientists Human-caused climate change made recent extreme weather events more intense and more likely, new analysis finds. |
October 28th, 2024 11:02:02 EDT -0400 Alarm call as world's trees slide towards extinction Scientists have revealed that more than a third of tree species are facing extinction. |
October 28th, 2024 05:00:46 EDT -0400 World way off target in tackling climate change - UN The world is wildly off track in tackling climate change, the UN says, as CO2 in the atmosphere accumulates faster than ever |
October 23rd, 2024 19:05:41 EDT -0400 Polar bears face higher risk of disease in a warming Arctic Climate change and sea ice loss leaves polar bears exposed to more diseases, research suggests. |
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November 14th, 2024 05:06:00 EST -0500 As Ocean Waters Warm, a Race to Breed Heat-Resistant Coral Around the world, researchers are working on a range of projects that aim to enhance corals’ resistance to marine heat waves. In a promising sign, a U.K. team recently became the first to quantify an uptick in heat tolerance among adult corals selectively bred for the trait. |
November 13th, 2024 07:50:00 EST -0500 Glaciers Reveal When Volcanoes Are on Brink of Eruption New research shows that glaciers near active volcanoes flow faster than other glaciers. The findings suggest it would be possible to predict volcanic eruptions by tracking the speed of glaciers. |
November 12th, 2024 08:55:00 EST -0500 Light Pollution May Be Keeping Honey Bees Up at Night Light from cars, homes, and street lamps may be keeping bees up at night, according to a new study. |
November 11th, 2024 06:56:00 EST -0500 Will Hydrogen Hubs Be a Clean Energy Boom or Boondoggle? As part of a $7 billion investment in hydrogen, the U.S. Department of Energy is committed to building a network of hydrogen facilities and pipelines centered in southeast Pennsylvania. Critics are questioning the project’s expense and its net savings in carbon emissions. |
November 8th, 2024 08:21:00 EST -0500 Study Finds Steep Rise in Emissions from Private Jets By virtue of their small size and limited capacity, private jets are deeply inefficient. They have an outsized climate impact and, according to a new study, their emissions are on the rise. |
November 7th, 2024 06:03:00 EST -0500 Brazil Hopes to Make the Amazon a Model for a Green Economy As he prepares to host the G20 summit, Brazil’s president is championing initiatives to promote a “bioeconomy” in the Amazon that protects biodiversity and helps Indigenous residents. The goal: To get governments to commit to a new economic vision that is truly sustainable. |
November 6th, 2024 08:41:00 EST -0500 Trained Rats Able to Sniff Out Smuggled Rhino Horns Rats could be the latest weapon deployed in the fight against endangered wildlife trafficking, according to a study of rodents trained to sniff out pangolin scales, rhino horns, elephant tusks, and hardwood. |
November 5th, 2024 11:25:00 EST -0500 Swarm of Cod Eat 10 Million Fish in Biggest Feeding Frenzy on Record A new study details how, in just a few hours, more than 2 million Atlantic cod consumed 10 million tiny capelin. Scientists say the feeding frenzy is the largest on record, both in terms of the number of fish involved and the area covered. |
November 4th, 2024 08:49:00 EST -0500 Tropical Forests Could Regrow Naturally on Area the Size of Mexico Forests could regrow naturally on more than 800,000 square miles of land around the tropics, without need for planting trees by hand, a new study finds. |
November 1st, 2024 10:10:00 EDT -0400 Satellite Imagery Shows Breadth of Flooding in Spain Record rainfall flooded parts of Spain this week, killing more than 150 people in the nation's deadliest natural disaster in decades. New satellite imagery from NASA and the European Space Agency shows the extent of flooding around the coastal region of Valencia. |
October 31st, 2024 03:36:00 EDT -0400 How to Grow a Forest: It Takes More Than Just Planting Trees In an e360 interview, microbial ecologist Jake M. Robinson, of Australia’s Flinders University, takes a critical look at tree planting campaigns and discusses scientists’ varied approaches to both “planting” and “growing” forests to restore their ecological health. |
October 30th, 2024 09:03:00 EDT -0400 China Appears On Track to See Emissions Fall This Year China is likely to see its emissions fall this year, despite rising power demand, as it continues to build out renewable power at unparalleled speed, a new analysis finds. |