The Korean super band BTS arrived a few days ago in New York as special envoys of the United Nations. The South Korean President has previously given them diplomatic passports as the band members have proven multiple times that they ...
The European Union and the United States have announced a joint pledge to slash methane emissions by at least 30 percent by 2030, the latest step in the global fight against climate change. Representatives from seven countries — Argentina, Ghana, ...
Many people don’t like to admit it, but plenty of animals and insects are able to do things that our species can’t. It’s also available for ants, as the little creatures can build astonishingly complex structures. The underground “cities” that ...
Half a billion people are relying on coral reefs for food. This can only mean that the marine creatures are astonishingly important for the environment. Corals are fascinating, but they still provide surprises for researchers. According to Gizmodo, a roughly ...
Asteroid Bennu is a giant in the sky that might represent a danger for future generations of humans. According to scientists, Bennu is expected to come near our planet by the year 2300, and according to many estimations, there is ...
Roughly 8.7 million species currently exist on Earth. It means that the amount of information about them wouldn’t most probably fit in the brain of an average person. There probably are even more species undiscovered, which makes the scenario even ...
Botanists from the University of British Columbia and the University of Wisconsin have all the reasons to be proud of themselves. These folks have discovered in North America a new carnivorous plant known as Triantha occidentalis. The plant makes its ...
Researchers have recently obtained a lost fragment of Stonehenge that was taken back in 1958. Back in 1958, Robert Philips used to be the representative of a drilling company that was working on the restoration of Stonehenge. While the monument ...
Scientists are worried about a possible devastating impact on our planet. Their concerns are tied to the Gulf Stream, as the current poses a risk of collapsing. The stream remains one of the main potential tipping points when it comes ...
Cats are known to be pretty smart creatures. They can understand a lot of things, even though they often ignore their owners. Cats even have outstanding long- and short-term memories. According to a new study posted in Trends in Genetics, ...
Scientists have just learn something very interesting about our sun! There are slow-moving waves of plasma on the sun, and they could actually help us understand what’s going on with the star’s magnetic field. NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) has ...
La Nina is known for its behavior and the fact that it can’t be controlled. It usually brings abnormal air pressure and warm waters to the Pacific Ocean. A new study found that La Nina rises the carbon export from ...
The worldwide “business as usual” approach to the ongoing problem of climate change has gotten our planet’s “vital signs” to reach record-breaking levels of deterioration, an influential team of scientists reported last Wednesday. They warned that we are about to ...
A new study highlights Earth’s current situation and is worse than we previously imagined. According to a team of scientists from NTU Singapore and Cambridge University, our planet experiences something quite peculiar yet shocking. The slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates ...
How much can the past inform the future? Can we figure out climate change better by analyzing bits of history? An international team of anthropologists, earth scientists, and geographers discusses a new approach called the archaeology of climate change. They ...
Clouds will increase global warming, and we can’t do pretty much anything about it, researchers warn us. New satellite data of Earth’s cloud cover unveils how clouds are very likely to amplify global heating. A team of scientists at Imperial ...
While most people know about the Pikachu character from the famous Pokemon animated show, much fewer folks are well aware that the cute yellow battling mouse has a homologous in real life. Known by the name of “plateau pika” or ...
Scientists initially believed that asteroids hitting Earth, such as the Chicxulub impactor that wiped out the dinosaurs, represent very rare events. There are plenty of reasons why you would be tempted to believe so, and one of them is represented ...
The whole plastics economy is now waiting for a systematic change that can influence the oceans’ future. The current situation Earth faces is already featuring the worst-case scenario: more and more plastics end up in the ocean. So, a new ...
People across the US and Canada are now experiencing some of the most extreme heat events that occurred in centuries. The worst part is that for most people such conditions can be fatal if humidity and temperatures both surpass 95. ...
New research unveils a new method of predicting if eruption emerges for an underwater volcano via satellite data. Only in the last few years, reports of frequent eruptions of submarine volcanoes were announced. Observing any signs of volcanic turbulence is ...
The Third Pole is now experiencing the worst-case scenario after a new study found that glaciers and snow cover started to disappear. Researchers developed a way to model the region’s water cycling and examine it. The results are genuinely intriguing ...
Global warming continues to threaten Earth, new data show. The West is now affected by hotter summer days, while the East Coast is getting overwhelmed by stickier and hotter summer nights. And that’s not all. Researchers reveal that state-by-state average ...
Antarctica’s new heat record has just been unveiled by the United Nations (UN). The record heat was reached last year, in February 2020, at Argentina’s Esperanza research station. Global warming and climate change continue to shape Earth’s future and it ...
Digging through 230 million-year-old dung for the sake of science isn’t something that you do every day. However, you know what they say that you have to make sacrifices in every job. But for researchers involved in a new study, ...