Forests are the key to fresh water
Freshwater resources are critical to both human civilization and natural ecosystems, but researchers have discovered that changes to ground vegetation can have as much...
Exploring a world without food animals
What would happen if U.S. farmers stopped producing animals for food and Americans went vegan? Some have called for a move in that direction...
Cold discomfort: Increasing cancer rates and adaptation of living in extreme environments
Populations living in very low temperatures, like in Denmark and Norway, had among the highest incidences of cancer in the world, a study has...
Dust play significant role fertilizing mountain plants
Researchers found foreign dust likely fertilizes plants in many locations worldwide.
West coast earthquake early warning system continues progress toward public use
A decade after beginning work on an earthquake early warning system, scientists and engineers are fine-tuning a US West Coast prototype that could be...
Plug-in hybrid vehicles are better than their reputation
Hybrid vehicles are often considered the fig leaf of electric mobility. However, plug-in hybrids with a real electric range of about 60 km drive...
Birth of a storm in the Arabian Sea validates climate model
Extreme cyclones that formed in the Arabian Sea for the first time in 2014 are the result of global warming and will likely increase...
Satellite tracking provides clues about South Atlantic sea turtles’ ‘lost years’
Biologists have been tracking the movements of sea turtle yearlings in the South Atlantic Ocean, and have come up with some surprising results.
Decades-past logging still threatens spotted owls in national forests
Logging of the largest trees in the Sierra Nevada's national forests ended in the early 1990s after agreements were struck to protect species' habitat....
Unique field survey yields first big-picture view of deep-sea food webs
A new article documents the first comprehensive study of deep-sea food webs, using hundreds of video observations of animals caught in the act of...
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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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