4+ hour, 3+ min ago   (754+ words) A global analysis of 37,000 petrochemical facilities reveals that just 10% produce 53% of the industry's emissions. Emissions from the petrochemical industry, already a major source of carbon dioxide on the planet, could climb by 50 percent by 2050 if nothing changes. New research has…...

6+ hour, 31+ min ago   (918+ words) Trail cameras in Nepal recorded evidence of small groups of endangered red pandas in Myagdi District, a little-studied area of central Nepal. In Dhawalagiri Rural Municipality within Myagdi… In Dhawalagiri Rural Municipality within Myagdi District, the cameras confirmed new presence…...

6+ hour, 3+ min ago   (1075+ words) Climate extremes are intensifying fastest in an unexpected part of the Amazon, where extreme dry-season temperatures are rising far faster than averages. For years, the story of Amazon climate change centered on the south, the region hit hardest by deforestation…...

8+ hour, 50+ min ago   (1076+ words) The genes behind bat lifespan overlap with the genes that handle viruses, and one key immune gene comes in up to three copies. A bigger mammal usually lives longer, and bats are a striking exception. Among the mouse-eared bats, body…...

1+ day, 8+ min ago   (1028+ words) Drilled cores from Galápagos coral carry an ocean temperature record back to the year 1000, and recent decades break the pattern. When the tropical Pacific warms every few years, the weather turns strange thousands of miles away. Direct measurements of that…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1015+ words) Lakes across northern North America buried carbon at a steady rate for thousands of years, but that changed dramatically after 1850. Leaves, pollen and washed-in soil sink to the bottom of a lake and settle into mud, and the carbon in…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (840+ words) A bizarre belemnite fossil from Wyoming has been identified as a new species, revealing the thickest known member of this ancient squid relative group. There’s a fossil in a Wyoming museum drawer that spent two decades being, essentially, a mystery…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1043+ words) Coral reefs are under growing heat stress, but a new field test suggests researchers may have another tool to help them cope. Coral probiotics have worked in tanks for years, where a researcher controls the water and decides when the…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (980+ words) Planting trees in snowy regions can reduce their climate benefit because dark forest canopies absorb sunlight that bright snow would reflect. Forest trees pull carbon out of the air, so Canada pays to plant them. In snow country, the land…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (984+ words) Small stickleback shoals lined up and swam closer together in murky water, and the tighter fish groups reached food faster. A shoal of fish stays together mostly by sight. Each fish watches its neighbors and adjusts, so when silt or…...