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+21 +1Amazon study discovers 381 new species in two-year period
Conservation charity WWF warns that the species were found in areas at risk from human activity.
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+19 +1A New Explanation for One of the Strangest Occurrences in Nature — Ball Lightning
Explanations for how ball lightning is formed are even more diverse than its physical characteristics.
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+15 +1Scientists Rush to Save This Melting Piece of Earth's History
A team of scientists is rushing to preserve a vital record of the planet that is literally melting away. Around the world, the team is extracting ice cores from glaciers that are disappearing.
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0 +1Climate Change Could damages US economy, Intensify Inequality – Mother Earth
Posted by: MotherEarthDesk July 4, 2017
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+2 +1Sea Levels are Rising Faster as Greenland Ice Sheet Melt off Quickens – Mother Earth
Posted by: MotherEarthDesk July 4, 2017
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-1 +1Turkey, Greece roasting under soaring temperatures – Mother Earth
Posted by: MotherEarthDesk July 4, 2017
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0 +1EU In Potential Collision With Trump Over Climate Issue – Mother Earth
Posted by: MotherEarthDesk July 3, 2017
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0 +1World has three years to avert dangerous climate catastrophe, experts warn – Mother Earth
Posted by: MotherEarthDesk July 3, 2017
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+24 +2Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm to bees
Scientists say the industry-funded work confirms that neonicotinoids are harmful, but manufacturers question its conclusions.
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0 +1Half-A-Degree Rise In Temperature Could Trigger Weather Extremes – Mother Earth
Posted by: MotherEarthDesk July 2, 2017
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+35 +1Spider Shoots 25 Metre Web - The Hunt - BBC Earth
Which marvel of nature can build a 2 metre Orb Web with a silk that ranks as the World's toughest natural fibre? - The answer is the Darwin's Bark Spider and this real life "Spider Woman", no bigger than a thumbnail has baffled scientists with her web of steel.
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+22 +1‘It came up from behind them and attacked’: Biologists ‘courageous’ in battle against bear
Erin Johnson, 27, of Anchorage, was killed Monday by a black bear while she was doing contract work for Pogo Mine in Interior Alaska.This was the second fatal bear attack in a two day span.
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+39 +1Deepest Dive Under Antarctica Reveals a Shockingly Vibrant World
Our special report offers a rare look at life beneath the frozen continent—where penguins, seals, and exotic creatures thrive.
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+45 +1Antarctica Is Melting, and Giant Ice Cracks Are Just the Start
The massive iceberg poised to break off the Larsen C Ice Shelf may be a harbinger of a continent-wide collapse that would swamp coastal cities around the world.
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+1 +1Carbon Dioxide Hit The Highest Level in History In May – Mother Earth
Posted by: MotherEarthDesk June 14, 2017
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+3 +1Massive Heatwave Hits India: More To Come, Say Scientists – Mother Earth
Posted by: MotherEarthDesk June 14, 2017
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+2 +1Climate change wars are coming and building walls won’t help, top general warns – Mother Earth
Posted by: MotherEarthDesk June 8, 2017
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+27 +1Coal Isn't Coming Back, Even With Trump Leaving the Paris Accord
President Donald Trump just made good on his campaign vow to leave the Paris climate accord. Now, the hard part: making American coal great again. In announcing his withdrawal from the international pact to fight global warming, Trump touted mines opening in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia and said the Paris accord would’ve been a near extinction-level event for such operations. To be sure, a handful of new mines have surfaced in Appalachia, but they’re primarily the kind used to supply steelmakers...
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+17 +2The Paris Accord: What is it? And What Does it All Mean?
Let's talk about Paris Climate Agreement
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+33 +1The US is relocating an entire town because of climate change. And this is just the beginning
For the first time, the government asked itself: Do you move whole communities? Who will pay for it? And, perhaps most contentiously, who do you help first? The water has been inching closer to Rita Falgout’s house, lapping at the edges of her front yard. Her home is one of 29 in Isle de Jean Charles, a narrow island in the bayous of southeastern Louisiana that is slowly sinking into the Gulf of Mexico.
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