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Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels May Be Wiping Out the World’s Biggest Bees
5+ hour, 12+ min ago (640+ words) Human-made carbon dioxide emissions threaten the very survival of our larger pollinators. Pollinators – including bees, flies, wasps, moths, butterflies and some nectar-loving birds – are a cornerstone of our natural environment. By helping plants reproduce, they keep our ecosystems healthy and…...
Antarctic Tourism Is a Climate Farce. Its Environmental Cost Is Getting Harder to Ignore
10+ hour, 21+ min ago (439+ words) Image via Unsplash. “You’d see massive glacier calvings, and you’d just want to cry. But all the guests would be cheering. And you’d be like … ‘can you...
Provocative New Study Says New Orleans Cannot Be Protected Forever. Is It Time to Plan a Retreat?
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (899+ words) The city's defenses just won't cut it. New Orleans exists because it bargains with water. The city pumps it, walls it off, channels it, blesses it, fears it, and dances beside it. For more than three centuries, that uneasy bargain…...
Earth’s Hottest and Coldest Places Were Separated by an Astonishing 136 Degrees Celsius Last Week
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (579+ words) A 136-degree planetary split captures both Earth’s seasons and its warming climate. In the darkness of the Antarctic winter, the thermometer at Concordia Station dropped to minus 84.1 degrees Celsius (-119.4°F). Five days earlier, on July 13, Armstrong, a small community in…...
The Aral Sea, Once the World's Fourth-Largest Inland Lake, Was Drained Dry. Now It's a Ticking Carbon Bomb
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (412+ words) Most of this inland sea is a dry lakebed the size of Ireland, and it has already released 748 million metric tons of CO2. But scientists say there's still time to reverse course. If the water dries up, however, stored carbon is…...
China Planted Billions of Trees and Scientists Just Found an Unexpected Advantage of These New Forests
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (790+ words) A new study finds plantations respond strongly to carbon dioxide, especially while young. Humans have cleared forests for thousands of years. Modern deforestation, however, has pushed the world’s forests dramatically out of balance. About 10.9 million hectares of forest (an area…...
Scientists Finally Learned How a Tiny Mouse Survives Near the Andes Death Zone at 7,000 Meters
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (571+ words) World's highest-living mouse survives in thin air by solving a problem that no other mammal can—not even you, human...
This Giant Deep-sea Creature Survives Five Years Without Food, Thanks to a Borrowed Bacterial Gene
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (687+ words) Living nearly 900 meters underwater, this isopod evolved unusual adaptations to thrive in the world’s most food-scarce environment....
A New Habitat at the Bottom of the Ocean Is Waiting for Its First Aquanauts
1+ week, 2+ day ago (353+ words) Four scientists could soon live and work beneath the Florida Keys for days....
Tiny Underwater Waves in the Ocean Can Affect the Climate Thousands of Kilometres Away
1+ week, 2+ day ago (369+ words) Credit: Pixabay. Thousands of metres below the ocean’s surface, there are tiny waves moving through the water. Much like breaking waves at the beach,...