California Forests Face Toxic Threat From Illegal Cannabis Farms. Experts Warn Wildlife Is at Risk
Ecologist Greta Wengert arrived at the site and was disheartened by what she witnessed: piles of pesticide sprayers trashed along the forest's hillside.
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A Danish Town Just Switched to Red Streetlights and It Could Change Animal Life in Cities Worldwide
Denmark’s red streetlights cut light pollution, protect wildlife, and could reshape how cities light the night.
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Scientists Capture Footage of Sea Lion Mom Teaching Her 11-Month Old Pup Important Survival Skills
A team of biologists captured footage of a mother-pup pair as they ventured on an eight-hour foraging trip.
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Scientists Warn We’re About to Break Paris’ 1.5°C Climate Pledge and Enter a Point of No Return
Researchers claim that soon the global warming limit will be breached, and it will transform the nature of climate change.
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Earth’s Core May Be Hiding 45 ‘Oceans’ Worth of Hydrogen, New Study Finds
New experiments suggest that Earth’s core may store vast hidden reserves of life-essential hydrogen.
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Russian Startup Tests Hacking Pigeon Brains to Develop First-Ever 'Bio-Drones'
Experts put electrodes in the brains of pigeon to simulate the birds into choosing a particular directions.
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Once a Year, This Yosemite Waterfall Looks Like It’s on Fire — And It’s Happening Now
This year, the visitors can witness the 'firefall' without making any reservations, unlike the previous years.
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With Climate Change Heating Up Yellowstone’s Rivers, Park Makes Major Shift to Its Fishing Rules
The fishing season will be extended this year in three of the major rivers in Yellowstone, including the Firehole River where rainbow trout fish spawn.
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Scientists Dropped a Camera Into Antarctic Waters and Saw a Mysterious Deep-Sea Shark for First Time
'This is the first footage obtained of a somniosidae [sleeper shark] or any elasmobranch [shark or ray] in situ in the Southern Ocean,' an oceanographer said.
22 hours ago
Auroras Just Formed a Perfect Heart Over Norway and One Photographer Caught it on Camera
Many viewers were skeptical that it's an AI-generated image, but the photographer clarified that he shot and edited it himself.
22 hours ago
Chinese Scientists Mimic Photosynthesis to Turn CO₂ into Petrol in Breakthrough Discovery
Scientists make a material capable of capturing electrical energy following the process of photosynthesis.
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Engineers Invent Revolutionary Metal That Will Make Unsinkable Ships a Reality
Researchers etch markings on aluminum metal tubes hoping to make them superhydrophobic.
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Scientists Plan to Turn the Ocean Floor into a Renewable Energy Storage Powerhouse Using Concrete Orbs
A new underwater energy storage system could help solve renewable power’s biggest challenge of storing excess electricity.
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Officers in California State Park Catch Woman Trying to Smuggle a Rare Sea Creature in Her Pants
After catching an abalone, the officer asked her if she had more. Confirming his suspicious, the woman produced a second abalone from her pants.
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Strange ‘Bioluminescent’ Jellyfish That Can’t Survive Sunlight Was Just Caught on Tape in Norway
From their flaming red bodies, they emit glowing blue lights to defend the prey in their transparent stomachs.
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A Gray Wolf Makes ‘Historic’ Appearance in Los Angeles for the First Time in 100 Years
A 3-year-old female gray wolf tagged “BEY03F” was tracked through her GPS collar on Saturday, February 7.
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Tourists Rush to See Melting Glaciers Before They're Gone. But Their Presence Is Making Things Worse
'Last-chance tourism' is adding pressure to vulnerable sites and making glaciers melt faster.
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Ocean Fossils Keep Turning Up on Top of Mount Everest. Scientists Say There’s a Good Reason for It
Conspiracy theories on the internet attribute these fossils to everything from a 'great flood' to a prank of Gandalf monster. But the mystery is quite simpler.
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Scientists Examined a 300-Foot Hole in Yellowstone and Found Hidden Life Growing
Eric Boyd and his team drilled a 300-foot borehole in Yellowstone and discovered that the colony of these organisms is thriving on a generous menu of chemicals.
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Is the Moon Habitable? Elon Musk Reveals Plan to Build a 'Self-Growing' Lunar City
According to Musk, building a 'self-growing city' on the Moon can be achieved in less than 10 years, whereas on Mars, it would take over 20 years.
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