Seoul’s ambitious Skygarden – which revives a disused elevated 1970s highway with 24,000 plants – is opening

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They’re so steady that you can balance a dead one on a single leg.

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The market is booming, but it's not making anybody rich. By Justin Fox.

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Submitted on May 23rd 2017 by AdelleChattre

Scientists have found a high rate of tumors in flatfish in the Baltic Sea that could be linked to old munitions. Weaponry dumped in the sea at the end of World War II is leaching chemicals toxic to fish - and people.

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On the trail of Carl Linnaeus, the Swedish scientist who gave names to much of the natural world nearly 300 years ago.

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A chat with Paul Hawken about his ambitious new effort to “map, measure, and model” global warming solutions. By David Roberts.

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Submitted on May 18th 2017 by AdelleChattre

A bird-loving scientist calls for an end to outdoor cats

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Submitted on May 18th 2017 by LisMan

Climate change denial has made numerous headlines in recent weeks. David Rose stated in The Daily Mail that there has been a global warming hiatus covered up by dubious science, Bret Stephens criticized the certitude of evidence in The New York Times, and Trump is rapidly making decisions based on his belief that humans have not impacted climate change.

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Submitted on May 22nd 2017 by 8mm with 2 comments

…and why Seattle may be the Corvid Capital of the World. By James Ross Gardner.

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Submitted on May 21st 2017 by AdelleChattre

A new study identifies the evolutionary refinements that gave rise to floating, rootless plants that can trap and digest, like super-fast Venus flytraps.

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Submitted on May 20th 2017 by gladsdotter

With global warming acting up more and more, the effects are starting to show. Scientists studying banks of moss in Antarctica report that plant life on the continent is blooming. Two species of moss especially are undergoing spectacular development — they used to grow less than a millimeter per year, but now, they’re growing over 3 millimeters per year on average — and they’re turning Antarctica green.

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Submitted on May 19th 2017 by TNY with 1 Related Links:

1. The left is probably going to lose on climate change. By Carl Beijer Added by AdelleChattre on May 20th 2017.

Global Warming is the root cause because of which the 1st mammal species goes extinct. The Bramble Cay Melomys is the 1st mammal to go extinct.

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Far from being the special result of insular evolution, Komodo dragons are the last survivors of a group of huge lizards that ranged over much of Australasia. By Hanneke Meijer.

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Submitted on May 21st 2017 by AdelleChattre

Ladybugs are famous for their spotted wing cases. But researchers in Japan were interested in what was happening under that colorful exterior: How delicate wings were folding origami-like into place.

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Submitted on May 20th 2017 by AdelleChattre

The Turnbull government has quietly axed eight environmental conditions aimed at protecting vulnerable turtle species set to be affected by Adani's proposed $3 billion coal terminal expansion at Abbot Point in Queensland. The move by the Environment Department, signed by minister Josh Frydenberg on May 10, also modified a ninth condition that required the Indian-owned miner spend $450,000 annually to implement a marine offsets strategy. Those funds will now go to the Reef Trust, possibly from a later date.

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Submitted on May 24th 2017 by rexall

A northern California man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing bees and beehives worth nearly $1 million, CBS San Francisco reports. According to the Fresno County Sheriff's Office, Pavel Tveretinov, 51, was taken into custody on April 28 at an orchard in Fresno. At the time of his arrest, Tveretinov was tending to more than 100 stolen beehives, officials said. Further investigation led authorities to find additional hives at two other locations in Fresno County.

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Submitted on May 19th 2017 by dynamite

As Utah political leaders continue predicting President Donald Trump will shrink or even erase the new Bears Ears National Monument, a soon-to-be published legal analysis concludes that presidents have no authority to mess with monuments… By Brian Maffly.

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Submitted on May 24th 2017 by AdelleChattre

The cases likely mark first time that U.S. authorities have pursued felonies against people involved in demonstrations against fossil fuel infrastructure. By Will Parrish.

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Submitted on May 19th 2017 by AdelleChattre

The team is making its case after drilling into the asteroid crater that coincides with the animals' disappearance.

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Submitted on May 19th 2017 by drunkenninja