Saturn shows us how a moon might be born
Saturn had 62 known moons, most of which are quite small, until now. The ringed giant added one more satellite to that count recently — a little icy rock that NASA has named “Peggy.”Peggy revealed...
View ArticleThe Pacific Ocean is gearing up for a big El Niño
Researchers say conditions in the Pacific Ocean could generate a powerful El Niño this year. If El Niño returns, it could intensify droughts and storms around the world. Just what the global climate...
View ArticleDeep cave explorers are different. To work thousands of feet underground, you...
If you're claustrophobic in any way, stop reading this story. Please avoid listening to the audio of the story. You won't like it. So avoid it. There's plenty of other good stuff on our website to...
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This scientist's 'art' depicts an Earth in crisis
NOAA scientist Greg Johnson was a lead author for a section of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment. But he wasn't satisfied with the scientifically-based written prose he...
View ArticleAfter 500 or so years, beavers have mysteriously returned to England
Just about every day, ecologist Tom Buckley takes a walk along the River Otter, in the town of Ottery St. Mary in western England. And late last year, he noticed something strange — a few trees were...
View ArticleA new report documents hundreds of green activists killed in resource and...
When you're an environmental activist, every day is Earth Day, not just April 22. In many places around the globe, being an environmental activist can literally mean putting your life on the line.More...
View Article'Rewilding' activists aim to bring back some long-extinct beasts to Europe
England is full of animals. You’ve got sheep, and barnfuls of cows. But in the county of Devon in western England, Derek Gow has a herd of cattle like none you’ve seen before.It's a herd of strong,...
View ArticleMany Sherpas are going home to give Mount Everest 'a rest'
The climbing season on Mount Everest is in question after the avalanche that killed 16 Sherpas on Friday. Many Sherpas are packing up and leaving the Mount Everest Base Camp. As one Sherpa put it,...
View ArticleDoes the Kremlin now control the Facebook of Russia?
In Moscow, you don't update your status on Facebook, you update on Vkontakte. It's the dominant social network in Russia.Mark Milian, the Global Tech editor for Bloomberg News, says around 240 million...
View ArticleDoes God exist? Can science really disprove that?
When science writer Amir Aczel read A Universe From Nothing, by Lawrence M. Krauss, he filled it with notes about everything he disagreed with, and considered writing a book of his own saying why he...
View ArticleBrazilians welcome genetically-modified mosquito to help fight dengue fever
When a major dengue outbreak hit Jacobina, a farm town in northeastern Brazil, last year, retired cleaning woman Luzia Rosa de Jesus spent a week in bed with a fever and body aches.On the seventh day,...
View ArticleBrazil's new Internet 'Bill of Rights' aims to protect the country's privacy
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Wednesday signed a new Internet "Bill of Rights'' for her country aimed at protecting the Internet and the online privacy of Brazilians.Carolina Rossini, who...
View ArticleIt's strange, but true — this is a praying mantis wearing 3-D glasses
Among insects, the praying mantis is believed to be the only one that sees in three dimensions, with depth, as humans do. And that gave scientists at Newcastle University in the United Kingdom an...
View ArticleThat banana you eat with your breakfast may become a lot harder to find — and...
A banana pathogen has devastated the banana crop of Southeast Asia since it emerged in the 1990s. But Panama Disease Tropical Race 4 (TR4) had remained fairly isolated to that one region — until now....
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Should Mexicans in Acapulco stay and fight climate change or give in and leave?
There’s a reason why Hollywood’s elite once flocked to Acapulco — it’s one of the most beautiful bays in the world, with lots of restaurants, nightclubs and tall hotels right on the Pacific Ocean.On a...
View ArticleFrom gills to gonads, you're more like a fish than you may believe
We all know that humans evolved from a common ancestor of apes. But if you really want to understand how and why the human body works the way it does, you need to look further up the evolutionary...
View ArticleMexico experiments with adapting to climate change naturally — and on the cheap
When we hear about climate change, “adaptation" is one word that usually finds its way into the conversation. But it's a term that means different things in different parts of the world.For southern...
View ArticleIt's puny, it's purple, it's Putnisite. So where was the new mineral discovered?
Today we're asking you to dig deep for a quick Geo Quiz.The clues come from a remote area down under. It's a place where a new mineral was recently discovered. It's called Putnisite and it was found on...
View ArticleScientists pinpoint the origins of human influence on everything from...
About 12,000 years ago, the first human “genetic engineers” started introducing small changes to plants and animals to produce benefit for humans. Now scientists are working together to illuminate the...
View ArticleA stinky, dead whale has become a tourist attraction in a Canadian town
A 180-ton blue whale carcass washed up in the small Newfoundland town of Trout River last week. It's believed the whale was one of nine endangered blue whales that died in heavy ice off Canada's...
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