By Michael Irving – An artist’s rendering of West Antarctica, which would have been a swampy forest around 90 million years ago. Alfred-Wegener-Institut, James McKay/CC-BY 4.0. – It’s hard to imagine Antarctica as anything other than a freezing lifeless landscape, but that wasn’t always …
By Loz Blain – Climate change and population growth will put huge pressure on English water supplies over the coming decades, says a new National Audit Office report. kwasny222/Depositphotos. – The UK Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has issued a warning: large …
More than 3,000 years ago, a group of people set out from the Solomon Island chain in the southwestern edge of the Pacific Ocean and steered their outrigger canoes toward the horizon, with no land as far as their eyes could see. These …
By Michelle Roberts, Health editor, BBC News online – Image copyright Getty Images – A loss of smell or taste may be a sign that you have coronavirus, according to UK researchers. A team at King’s College London looked at responses from more …
By Michelle Roberts, Health editor, BBC News online – Image copyright Getty Images – A simple blood test can check for more than 50 types of cancer, often before any signs or symptoms, scientists say. It could help diagnose tumors sooner, when they …
By Jonathan Amos, BBC Science correspondent – Image copyright Joseph Schubert Image caption Maratus azureus: It’s common for the male spiders to wave their third pair of legs in a courtship dance – OK, a lot of people don’t like arachnids. But c’mon, …
By Nick Lavars – A new study has demonstrated how sediment flows in the ocean can shift microplastic waste into the deep ocean. tomisl.z/Depositphotos. – Millions of tons of plastic waste washes into the world’s oceans each year, but a new study has revealed …
Former Bank President, refuses to retire, and is now running the Corona Posse, killing Corona Virus all over New Mexico. – By Ben Boothe, Sr. – Several years ago, in Texas we had several viral epidemics, and so we, through our environmental company, …
Crinolines, by design, made physical contact nearly impossible. Hulton Archive/Stringer via Getty Images. – By Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, Visiting Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University – As the world grapples with the coronavirus outbreak, “social distancing” has become a buzzword of these strange times. …
Costa’s Hummingbirds are frequent visitors at feeders in Arizona and southern California. Julian Avery, CC BY-ND. By Julian Avery, Assistant Research Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Pennsylvania State University – Millions of Americans enjoy feeding and watching backyard birds. Many people make …
