Illegal use of natural resources in the protected Brazilian Amazon mapped
New research uses law enforcement data collected from 2010 to 2015 to understand the geographical distribution of the illegal use of natural resources across...
What soot-covered, hundred-year-old birds can tell us about saving the environment
Birds in museum collections from Rust Belt cities around the turn of the century are covered with black soot from air pollution at the...
Formation of coal almost turned our planet into a snowball
While burning coal today causes Earth to overheat, about 300 million years ago the formation of that same coal brought our planet close to...
Huge energy potential in open ocean wind farms in the North Atlantic
Because wind speeds are higher on average over ocean than over land, wind turbines in the open ocean could in theory intercept more than...
Solar energy: Prototype shows how tiny photodetectors can double their efficiency
Physicists have developed a photodetector -- a device that converts light into electrons -- by combining two distinct inorganic materials and producing quantum mechanical...
Scientists complete conservation puzzle, shaping understanding of life on Earth
An international team of scientists has completed the 'atlas of life' -- the first global review and map of every vertebrate on Earth. The...
Droughts and wildfires: How global warming is drying up the North American monsoon
Previous researchers had concluded that global warming was simply delaying the North American monsoon, which brings summer rains to the southwestern US and northwestern...
Disease-carrying mosquitoes abound in deforested lands
UF scientists synthesized and examined data from prior studies that had looked at how many pathogen-carrying mosquito species made their homes in forested lands...
Official fish trade ‘hugely underestimates’ global catches
Conservation of dwindling fish stocks is being severely hampered by poor controls on global trade, according to new research.
Establishing a conservation breeding program to save the last saola
The saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), a primitive wild cattle endemic to the Annamite mountain range in Vietnam and Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR), is in...
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He's given a whole new meaning to "poached eggs."
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The extremely rare cave-dwelling albino fish with no eyes, the Mexican blindcat, has previously only been known to exist in Mexico.
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