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Scientists on Wednesday said they could be a step closer to solving the riddle behind the moon's formation, unveiling the most detailed survey yet of the far side of Earth's satellite. In January, the Chinese spacecraft Chang'e-4 — named after the moon goddess in Chinese ...
Ex-ministers blast Jair Bolsonaro for dismantling Brazil's environmental protections
Eight former Brazilian environment ministers blasted new right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro and his administration in a letter on Wednesday, saying it is dismantling the country's environmental protections. The former officials criticized the government's decision to strip the environment ministry's authority over forestry and water agency ...
U.K. soldier on Malawi anti-poaching mission killed by elephant
A British soldier serving in Malawi with an anti-poaching operation has been killed by an elephant, the defense ministry said Tuesday. Mathew Talbot was on patrol Sunday in Liwonde National Park when "he was killed by an elephant," a spokesman told AFP. The director of Malawi's ...
Humanity is squandering the natural capital that has allowed society to thrive, and driving a million plant and animal species to the brink of extinction in the process, the U.N.'s first comprehensive report on biodiversity warned Monday. Relentless plundering and poisoning of water, wildlife, air, ...
Major U.N. biodiversity report to call for 'Paris moment' to protect nature and avoid human misery
Revamping global food production, retooling the financial sector, moving beyond gross domestic product as a measure of progress and other "transformative changes" are needed to save nature and ourselves, a major U.N. biodiversity report will conclude. Delegates from 130 nations were to wrap up weeklong ...
Salmon-eating sea lions Columbia River dam killed under new guidelines
More California sea lions preying on imperiled salmon in the Columbia River below a hydroelectric project on the Oregon-Washington border are being killed under a revised policy, federal authorities said Friday. The National Marine Fisheries Service made public reduced criteria for removing sea lions at ...
The Chinese giant salamander, the largest amphibian in the world, is not cute. Weighing as much as an adult human, it has slimy brown skin, a giant mouth curled to a gormless grin, and puny, mistrustful eyes. It is also one of the world's most endangered ...
If you are looking for a word to describe your adorable pet pup, "selfish" might not top the list. But a study published Wednesday in the journal PLOS ONE suggests Fido's reputation for being caring is all a ruse — at least if you are ...
Not so fast: Trump's Alaska drilling study slammed by U.S. wildlife regulator
The Trump administration failed to adequately consider oil spills, climate change and the welfare of polar bears in its expedited study of proposed drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, according to comments published by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The unusually harsh criticism ...
Up to a million species risk extinction due to human activity, warns draft U.N. report
Up to 1 million species face extinction due to human influence, according to a draft U.N. report obtained by AFP that painstakingly catalogs how humanity has undermined the natural resources upon which its very survival depends. The accelerating loss of clean air, drinkable water, carbon ...
Last year humanity destroyed an expanse of tropical forest nearly the size of England, the fourth-largest decline since global satellite data become available in 2001, researchers reported Thursday. The pace of the loss is staggering — the equivalent of 30 football fields disappearing every minute ...
Major penguin rookery in northwest Antarctic mostly silent since 2016, study finds
For the past three years, virtually no chicks have hatched at Antarctica's second-biggest breeding grounds for emperor penguins, and the start of this year is looking just as bleak, a new study has found. Usually 15,000 to 24,000 breeding pairs of emperor penguins flock yearly ...
