The Gulf of Mexico grows a vast ‘dead zone’ every summer, but what happens beneath the water threatens far more than marine life |
Every summer, a vast stretch of the Gulf of Mexico transforms into what scientists call…
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DNA from 457 koalas suggests the species nearly went extinct 100,000 years ago, before humans reached Australia
Koalas nearly went extinct before humans arrived, DNA study reveals A major genetic study has…
Warming seas are bringing octopus, red mullet and bream into UK waters, forcing fishers to rethink catches and chefs to learn Mediterranean species
Buck Bennett says he is seeing more species of Mediterranean fish in the seas off…
Quote of the day by Pythagoras: “As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never…” – a powerful warning about cruelty to animals, humanity’s relationship with nature and the search for a healthier world |
Pythagoras (Image: Wikipedia) Humans depend entirely on the natural world, and yet the relationship has…
Residents kept reporting dolphins in two Japanese bays. Underwater microphones revealed how frequently they visit
Scientists monitored dolphins in two bays along Sea of Japan coast. (Representational photo) People living…
Scientists studied how animals survive winter and found fruit flies rebuild their biological clock into a separate seasonal mode
Seasonal gene switch locks fruit flies in winter mode Scientists studying how animals survive the…
Faster: Mediterranean seagrass survives in dim seabed light by expanding its photosynthetic antenna and trapping energy faster, a discovery that may help improve future crops
Scientists have uncovered how Posidonia oceanica adapted to the dim light of the seabed. In…
Florida is planting 15,000 milkweeds along highways to help monarch butterflies; the unused roadsides could become a 10,200-acre wildlife corridor
Officials in Florida have planted 15,000 milkweed plants along roadsides to help monarch butterflies survive.…
Archaeologists in Iraq unearthed a rare 2,600-year-old Assyrian stele of King Ashurbanipal at Nineveh’s Shamash Gate, nearly a decade after ISIS damaged the ancient city
A fragment of an ancient stele dating to the reign of the Assyrian King Ashurbanipal…
Scientists gave wild raccoons four-lock puzzle boxes to test their problem-solving skills, but the animals opened them using completely different techniques |
Imagine leaving a locked food box in your backyard and returning the next morning to…