Drone footage taken in the far northeastern regions of Canada finally sheds light on how narwhals use the massive tusks protruding from their heads.

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The snow leopard species is comprised of three sub-species, according to new research.

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How different Earth's history might have been if the space rock had struck a different location.

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The 110 million-year-old fossil of a nodosaur preserves the animal’s armor, skin, and what may have been its final meal. By Michael Greshko.

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New Jersey’s working class are forgotten as federal government funds fixes for wealthier neighbors. By John Upton.

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Submitted on May 12th 2017 by AdelleChattre

Climate change only explains at least 20 percent of the movement.

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Submitted on May 17th 2017 by gladsdotter with 1 comments

More than 37 million pieces of plastic debris have accumulated on a remote island in the South Pacific, thousands of miles from the nearest city, according to estimates from researchers who documented the accumulating trash. Turtles get tangled in fishing line, and hermit crabs make their homes in plastic containers. The high-tide line is demarcated by litter. Small scraps of plastic are buried inches deep into the sandy beaches.

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Submitted on May 16th 2017 by Chubros

A 36-million-year-old fossil skeleton is revealing a critical moment in the history of baleen whales: what happened when the ancestors of these modern-day filter feeders first began to distinguish themselves from their toothy, predatory predecessors. The fossil is the oldest known mysticete, a group that includes baleen whales, such as humpbacks, researchers report in the May 22 Current Biology.

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Submitted on May 14th 2017 by wetwilly87

Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to protect the Paris Agreement on curbing climate change during a phone call with French President-elect Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday .China and France “should protect the achievements of global governance, including the Paris Agreement”, Xi told Macron, according to the foreign ministry. “China has always regarded France as a high-priority partner... and maintains its support for the process of European integration,” Xi was quoted as saying.

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Submitted on May 12th 2017 by rexall

In the farthest reaches of Antarctica, a nightmare scenario of crumbling ice – and rapidly rising seas – could spell disaster for a warming planet. Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is so remote that only 28 human beings have ever set foot on it. Knut Christianson, a 33-year-old glaciologist at the University of Washington, has been there twice. A few years ago, Christianson and a team of seven scientists traveled more than 1,000 miles from McMurdo Station, the main research base in Antarctica, to spend six weeks on Thwaites...

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Surveys in German nature reserves point to a dramatic decline in insect biomass. By Gretchen Vogel.

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Submitted on May 13th 2017 by AdelleChattre

Chemicals that leave sperm dead in the water may offer effective, safer contraceptive.

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Submitted on May 17th 2017 by kxh

It is a unique evolutionary hotspot home to thousands of plants found nowhere else on Earth. However, Madagascar’s special trees, palms and orchids – which provide habitats and food for dozens of species of rare lemur and other animals – are now facing catastrophic destruction caused by land clearances, climate change and spreading agriculture, scientists will warn this week. Thousands of plant species could be lost to humanity in the near future according to a report...

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Submitted on May 14th 2017 by geoleo

It’s now “inevitable” that the contiguous United States will lose all of its glaciers within a matter of decades, according to scientists who have revealed the precipitous shrinkage of dozens of glaciers in Montana. Warming temperatures have rapidly reduced the size of 39 named glaciers in Montana since 1966, according to comparisons released by the US Geological Survey (USGS) and Portland State University. Some have lost as much as 85% of their expanse over the past 50 years, with Glacier national park...

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Submitted on May 11th 2017 by zyery

Artist Lorenzo Quinn finished the installation of a monumental sculpture for the 2017 Venice Biennale. Titled Support, the piece depicts a pair of gigantic hands rising from the water.

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A Tang Shipwreck & Early Trade In Asia. By Kristin Nord.

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Submitted on May 16th 2017 by AdelleChattre

Before the end of the century, rising temperatures could trigger an influx of warm water beneath Antarctica’s second-largest ice shelf – and once it begins, researchers say there’s ‘no going back.’ The phenomenon would cause the ice to lose contact with the seafloor, which has so far acted as a natural brake to slow the ice flow. Scientists say they've already detected the first signs of the process, and once underway, it will cause the ice to shed at a much faster rate, dramatically shrinking the massive Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf.

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Submitted on May 12th 2017 by melaniee

The Sun is rising on a calm and cloudy morning in late February 2017, and Jamie Sneddon and I have an important collection to make. After a short drive along the north-east coast of Scotland – passing open fields, detached bungalows, and blooming bushes of gorse that shine with a radiant yellow under the grey sky – we arrive at the muddy entrance of a farmyard. Many of the locals here in the remote Scottish Highlands are crofters: they nurture and trade certain root vegetables and small numbers of livestock and poultry, a lifestyle first developed in the 19th Century.

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Submitted on May 13th 2017 by ppp

Top predators like wolves have a powerful effect on their ecosystems, and if they are taken away, a strange phenomenon can happen

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Submitted on May 17th 2017 by jcscher

On Wednesday, the Weather Channel posted a video of a digging clam to its Facebook page with the caption,

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Submitted on May 16th 2017 by kxh