Research finds endangered Antarctic blue, fin and southern right whales struggling to recover despite hunting bans

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Submitted on August 22nd 2017 by spacepopper with 1 comments

Now, the project is lead by Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who couldn’t even remember that he wanted to eliminate the department to begin with. So, while the country spends its days watching The Apprentice-style government that Donald Trump has created with actual Nazis, North Korea and Russian hackers, Oliver hopes people can remember that one in three Americans is 50 miles from a festering, ill-contained paperbag of lethal radioactive garbage.

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Submitted on August 21st 2017 by shihtzuman with 1 comments

In the mid-1990s, 1,000 truckloads of orange peels and orange pulp were purposefully unloaded onto a barren pasture in a Costa Rican national park. Today, that area is covered in lush, vine-laden forest.

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Submitted on August 22nd 2017 by doodlegirl

Tansy was not into sports. The little border collie, a rescue, didn’t care for agility trials or flyball. But her adopted family—with two other border collies already in the house—played them all the time. Border collies, the elite athletes of the canine universe, are working dogs. They go a little nuts without something to do. After a little consternation, Tansy's new owner Robin Queen, a linguist at the University of Michigan, got some advice: sheep. And why not? Border collies are, after all, sheepdogs.

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Submitted on August 19th 2017 by Petrox with 2 comments

Tremendous amounts of soot, lofted into the air from global wildfires following a massive asteroid strike 66 million years ago, would have plunged Earth into darkness for nearly two years, new research finds.

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Submitted on August 23rd 2017 by TNY

Experts say a petroglyph in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon may depict a solar eclipse from 920 years ago.

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Submitted on August 18th 2017 by CatLady

The road to cleaner, meltdown-proof nuclear power has taken a big step forward.

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Submitted on August 23rd 2017 by jedlicka

Panel sought to help businesses and state and local governments prepare for effects of warming.

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Submitted on August 21st 2017 by archmagician

“Hope is essential – despair is just another form of denial,” Al Gore said last week, in an interview to promote the sequel to his 2006 climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth. As well as the very bad news of Donald Trump’s science-denying presidency, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, which opens in the UK today, brings good news: the plummeting cost of renewable electricity and the 2015 Paris climate agreement.

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Submitted on August 20th 2017 by Nelson with 1 comments

The Chinese city of Huainan is rich in coal—very rich. By one 2008 estimate, it has nearly a fifth of all of China’s coal reserves. Now the city has become home to the world’s largest floating solar farm. Appropriately, it has been built atop a former coal mine, which had become a lake after being flooded with groundwater. The China Daily reports that the farm started generating electricity earlier this week.

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Submitted on August 19th 2017 by hxxp

The global solar market has been downgraded for 2017. A worrying sign? Hardly. Even with a 4-gigawatt downward adjustment in projected installations, it's still going to be a record-breaking year for new solar capacity additions -- yet again. The 81 gigawatts expected this year are more than double the amount of solar capacity installed in 2014. And it's 32 times more solar deployed a decade ago. (In the year 2000, global installations totaled 150 megawatts.)

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Submitted on August 21st 2017 by hedman

The head of an animal conservation NGO who had received numerous death threats has been shot and killed by an unknown gunman in Tanzania. Wayne Lotter, 51, was shot on Wednesday evening in the Masaki district of the city of Dar es Salaam. The wildlife conservationist was being driven from the airport to his hotel when his taxi was stopped by another vehicle. Two men, one armed with a gun opened his car door and shot him.

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Submitted on August 17th 2017 by jasont

New research has shed fresh light on how animals first appeared on the Earth. It is a story spanning hundreds of millions of years, of entire mountain ranges ground to dust by vast glaciers that once covered the planet and of dramatic climate change that ushered in a new biological age. Life on Earth was dominated by simple bacteria up until about 650 million years ago when more complex forms of life suddenly took over.

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Submitted on August 17th 2017 by maelstorm

Pets, especially dogs, may have a salutary effect on health because they add to the rich array of microbes in our homes, to the benefit of our immune systems.

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Submitted on August 20th 2017 by LisMan

Veterinarians specialized in vision problems are few, but some conditions ailing dogs and other animals can be treated.

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Submitted on August 20th 2017 by LisMan

The classic self-recognition test gets a makeover for dogs, using smell not sight

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Submitted on August 23rd 2017 by Gozzin

Thousands of Atlantic salmon have escaped into Pacific waters east of Victoria after nets containing an estimated 305,000 fish were damaged at a U.S. fish farm in the San Juan Islands on Saturday. The company, Cooke Aquaculture, blamed "exceptionally high tides and currents coinciding with this week's solar eclipse" for the failure of the net pen near Cypress Island.

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Submitted on August 23rd 2017 by geoleo

Emotional contagion, the spread of feelings between people and animals, is an emerging field of science.

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Submitted on August 20th 2017 by LisMan

Extreme weather events are costing India $9-10 billion annually and climate change is projected to impact agricultural productivity with increasing severity from 2020 to the end of the century. In a recent submission to a parliamentary committee, the agriculture ministry said productivity decrease of major crops would be marginal in the next few years but could rise to as much as 10-40% by 2100 unless farming adapts to climate change-induced changes in weather.

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Submitted on August 18th 2017 by jedlicka

Good news out of South Africa (home to a very large rhinoceros population) - poaching numbers seem to be decreasing and poaching related arrests are increasing. 2016 saw 1,054 rhinos poached for the horns, a drop from the 1,174 rhinos taken in South Africa in 2015. At the same time, there were approximately 680 arrests that came as a direct result of park ranger intervention, up from about 315 such arrests in 2015.

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Submitted on August 20th 2017 by ubthejudge