The end of summer is coming. Have you been mothing yet?
Moths play a vital role in our ecosystems, but many people know little about them. That's why Elena Tartaglia, an ecologist at Bergen Community College in Paramus, New Jersey, thought it was time to...
View ArticleOceanographer Sylvia Earle is on a mission to save our seas
Ever since Sylvia Earle was knocked over by a wave years ago on the Jersey shore, she has felt a deep connection to the ocean and dedicated her life to saving it.Now, a renowned oceanographer and...
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A landmark effort to protect migratory birds, and why we need to do more
One hundred years ago, amid the chaos of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson and King George V of Great Britain turned their attention to a surprising issue: protecting migratory birds. On August 16,...
View ArticleDisplaced Iraqis struggle to stay cool during sweltering heat wave
The Middle East is in the sweaty grips of a sustained heat wave.Kuwait may have set an Eastern Hemisphere record late last month with a temperature of nearly 130 degrees. The weather in Saudi Arabia...
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Meet the 22-year-old with a big idea for cleaning up the Great Pacific...
Plastics, litter and all sorts of debris have polluted our waters for years. While prevention is key, ocean cleanup also presents a daunting task.One young ocean lover is confronting this challenge...
View ArticleHumans aren't the only species where righties are more common than lefties
The human tendency to be right-handed is obvious — especially if you’re a lefty and have to deal with right-handed desks and scissors, not to mention spiral notebooks.But humans aren’t the only members...
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Aid workers struggle to help people made homeless from Sudan floods
Aid workers are struggling to get hundreds of tons of aid to people made homeless by widespread flooding in Sudan after torrential rains severed a highway and other roads.Trucks and vehicles loaded...
View ArticleEating the 'Carolina Reaper' pepper is 'like eating molten lava'
The first time Ed Currie tasted the Carolina Reaper, a fire-engine red chili pepper the size of a golf ball, “it knocked me to my knees,” he says. “I was very surprised.”Currie, who’s the founder of...
View ArticleCan you swipe your way to new friends?
Wake up, world! It’s 2016 and we’re officially in the decade of online-love. Almost everyone knows at least one couple who met with the assistance of technology.Almost 50 million people use apps or...
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Was that extreme weather event influenced by climate change?
Forty thousand homes damaged and more than a dozen people killed by torrential rains in Louisiana.Blistering temperatures in the Middle East.Continuing fires in California, fed by five years of...
View ArticleUnderfunded wildlife enforcement in the Pacific Northwest fails to keep up...
Underfunding and low prioritization of wildlife crimes are hampering efforts to clamp down on wildlife poaching in the Pacific Northwest.While poaching of animals like rhinos and elephants makes global...
View ArticleThe physics behind the world’s fastest swim strokes
To propel themselves through the water, swimmers use different strokes to control drag and lift. But which stroke is the fastest? Some experts have pinpointed the fish kick — a version of the dolphin...
View ArticleThis is the controversial plan underway to save the endangered whale-like...
The vaquita is one of the smallest, and rarest, cetacean species. The diminutive porpoise is native to the northern part of the Gulf of California. Scientists estimate that only 60 individuals remain...
View ArticleThe US Forest Service is being overwhelmed by all the fires it must fight
Wildfires are scorching tens of thousands of acres out west — there are currently six fires in Yellowstone National Park, and nearly a dozen fires are actively burning in the state of California. The...
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Small farmers from around the world learn how they can grow far more food
Her face shaded by a wide-brimmed straw hat, Olawumi Benedict is cheerfully tending to her “little babies” — kale seedlings growing in shallow wooden flats until they’re hardy enough for...
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Death toll rises in Italian quake; 'it's like an apocalypse'
A powerful pre-dawn earthquake devastated mountain villages in central Italy on Wednesday, leaving at least 159 people dead.Scores of buildings were reduced to dusty piles of masonry in communities...
View ArticleOnce-impassable Northwest Passage sees its largest passenger ship
The largest commercial cruise ship ever to attempt the Northwest Passage starts sailing through its frigid waters this week. The sea route over the top of Canada has historically been impassable, but...
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Michelin isn't reinventing the wheel, it's reinventing the rubber supply chain
Scientists estimate that a forest the size of Indiana will be cut down to plant rubber trees over the next eight years. That’s creating biological deserts, driving some of our favorite exotic animals...
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Animals from 'world's worst' zoo find a new home
Animals evacuated this week from a zoo dubbed the "world's worst" in the Gaza Strip have arrived at an animal shelter in Jordan, an AFP photographer said on Thursday.Two turtles, two eagles, two...
View ArticleOur closest galactic neighbor may also have a habitable planet
Earth has a new intergalactic neighbor.On Wednesday, astronomers announced they have detected an Earth-like planet in a neighboring solar system in the so-called "Goldilocks zone” — areas of space that...
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