Climat: les Etats-Unis défendront d'abord leurs intérêts
Les Etats-Unis ont indiqué jeudi qu'ils prendraient leur temps pour revenir éventuellement sur leurs engagements internationaux en matière de changement climatique mais qu'ils défendraient...
OPINION: Why carbon tax is needed and what it means for Singapore
Carbon taxes will be implemented in Singapore from 2019. These taxes will be levied on the largest direct emitters of greenhouse gases, such as...
Living Planet: Building cities resilient to climate change
Waiting for the rain in parched Cape Town 31.03.2017
Cape Town's water supply is running low. The city has introduced emergency restrictions and is threatening...
Global Carbon Price Needed to prevent Dangerous Global Warming: New Report
British Columbia, which is also a founding signatory of the Under2 Coalition, was the first to launch a revenue neutral carbon tax in North...
Migratory seabird deaths linked to hurricanes
Stronger and more frequent hurricanes may pose a new threat to the sooty tern, a species of migratory seabird found throughout the Caribbean and...
Deeper understanding of environmental values gained through broader collaboration
It’s understood that chemists and geologists come from very different science disciplines, but people tend to file all social scientists under one category—social. But...
Baleen whales’ ancestors were toothy suction feeders
Modern whales' ancestors probably hunted and chased down prey, but somehow, those fish-eating hunters evolved into filter-feeding leviathans. An analysis of a 36.4-million-year-old whale...
This nasal receptor mediates the appetizing smell of fish food
The aquatic environment is full of tantalizing chemicals that can guide a fish to mates or meals. Now, scientists in Japan have identified the...
Some forests have been hiding in plain sight
A new estimate of dryland forests suggests that the global forest cover is at least 9 percent higher than previously thought. The finding will...
Saying goodbye to glaciers
Glaciers around the world are disappearing before our eyes, and the implications for people are wide-ranging and troubling, a glacier expert concludes in a...
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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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