Six climate scientists who are also mothers have launched Science Moms, a $10 million campaign to educate moms about climate change and help them take action. Working with Potential Energy, a nonprofit marketing firm, the scientists have created a series of ads for national TV and online audiences, with campaigns targeting North Carolina, Arizona, Wisconsin […]
By Gabriel Filippelli The Trump administration has worked to weaken U.S. environmental regulations in many areas, from water and air pollution to energy development and land conservation. One of its most controversial actions is known as the “secret science” rule because it would require scientists to disclose all of their raw data, including confidential medical […]
At least twelve deep-sea species were recently discovered in the Atlantic, BBC News reported. After five years of research, scientists of the ATLAS Project, a transatlantic assessment and deep-water management plan for Europe, discovered new species of sea mosses, molluscs and corals. Although much of the deep sea remains unexplored, researchers warn that the impacts […]
By Brett B. Palm The year 2020 will be remembered for many reasons, including its record-breaking wildfires that turned San Francisco’s skies an apocalyptic shade of red and blanketed large parts of the West in smoke for weeks on end. California experienced five of its six largest fires on record in 2020, including the first […]
By Zulfikar Abbany How do you whittle down the 200 billion in our Milky Way galaxy to a mere 21? Focus on the ones that have changed human understanding of the universe, as astronomer Giles Sparrow told DW. DW: Let’s start with the basics: We often talk about stars in the night sky as though […]
By William Teets Editor’s note: Dr. William Teets is the director of Vanderbilt University’s Dyer Observatory. In this interview, he explains what does and doesn’t happen during the winter solstice on Dec. 21. Another cosmic phenomenon is also going to occur on the same day called “the great conjunction,” where Saturn and Jupiter, both of […]
By Andrea Germanos A team of scientists issued a stark warning Tuesday that the possibility of averting an oil spill bigger than the 1989 Exxon Valdez catastrophe and “disastrous environmental and humanitarian consequences” posed by an abandoned oil tanker in the Red Sea are “quickly disappearing.” At issue is the corroding Safer, moored off the […]
In the Bolivian Andes, scientists found 20 new species and rediscovered plants and animals not seen for decades. The findings were made on a 14-day scientific expedition in March 2017 led by non-profit environmental group Conservation International (CI) high into the cloud forests of the Andean mountains. As part of CI’s Rapid Assessment Program, which […]
A team of scientists has created the first-ever aerial map of the coral reefs surrounding the main Hawaiian Islands, in a breakthrough researchers hope will assist reef conservation in the islands and beyond. The map, written up in a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences article Monday, was able to show the geographic distribution […]