For the first time, scientists have succeeded in mapping the largest deep-sea coral reef in the world, which runs hundreds of miles off the Atlantic coast of the United States. The massive 6.4-million-acre reef is bigger than the state of Vermont, a press release from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said. “It’s eye-opening […]
Last year was the hottest year on record by a wide margin, and 2024 has a one-in-three shot at being even hotter, according to the Annual 2023 Global Climate Report by the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Scientists from the European Union found that Earth’s average temperature last year was 1.35 degrees […]
The planet had its hottest year ever recorded last year due to human-caused climate change from the burning of fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal. According to a new report from nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), YouTube is making millions annually from advertisements on channels that put forth inaccurate climate change information, […]
An enormous ancient civilization has been discovered in Ecuador’s Upano Valley, hidden for millenia by rainforest vegetation, reported the BBC. The existence of the intricately laid development rewrites previous assumptions about the human history of the Amazon. The settlement — located beneath a volcano — has a web of canals and roads connecting homes and […]
Mexico, the United States and Caribbean countries are being pummeled by hurricane waves that have increased in size by 80 percent over the past four decades, according to a first-of-its-kind global trend study led by China’s Hohai University. The researchers looked at long-term differences in the surface area and height of tropical cyclone waves on […]
In the past 40 years, snowpack has sharply declined and is expected to continue this trend, according to a new study by researchers from Dartmouth College. With winter storms currently hitting across the U.S., snow can be a confusing element when it comes to better understanding and tracking climate change and global warming. Some areas […]
The first large-scale study of mountain lion numbers in California has been completed by scientists from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW); the nonprofits Audubon Canyon Ranch and the Institute for Wildlife Studies; University of California, Santa Cruz; and University of California, Davis. The population estimate of between 3,200 and 4,500 cougars is […]
Microplastics are so pervasive, they have been found all over the planet and in the human body. A new study has found that a liter of bottled water contains an average of approximately 240,000 detectable plastic fragments, which is 10 to 100 times more than earlier estimates, a press release from Columbia Climate School said. […]
Despite a recent report from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) that highlighted that 25% of freshwater fish were threatened with extinction, scientists in Turkey have recently come across a rare species sighting that gives some hope to the situation. Ichthyologists in Turkey recently spotted the leopard barbel (Luciobarbus subquincunciatus), a rare freshwater […]
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