Nature and Environment, page 3

South Africa Is Going to Bomb an Island With Tons of Poison. Its Goal: To Annihilate Thousands of Mice

Nature and Environment

The ambitious, $26-million plan can’t fail if the country wants to avoid making matters worse.

Corn Sweat Is Real, and It’s Making the Heat Wave in the Midwest Even Worse

Nature and Environment

It doesn't literally mean that the corn is sweating, FYI.

Tiny Creature Discovered on the Alaskan Border Is the Closest Living Relative of All Animals

Nature and Environment

A chance encounter in the brackish waters of Mono Lake could have numerous implications for science and even modern medicine.

We've Long Wondered Why the Chernobyl Wild Boars Were So Radioactive. It Turns Out It Has Nothing to Do With the Nuclear Disaster

Nature and Environment

Nuclear testing and the diets of these mammals are to blame for their excessive radiation.

The Atlantic Has Suddenly Begun Cooling at Record Speed. That Changes Everything, Even the Hurricane Season

Nature and Environment

In the last three months, temperatures in one part of the Atlantic have cooled faster than ever since 1982.

Six Months Ago, an Autonomous Submarine Disappeared in Antarctic Waters. Now We Know What It Saw Before It Sank

Nature and Environment

A few months ago, the University of Gothenburg in Sweden announced some sad news: It had just lost an uncrewed submarine for which it had paid about $3.7 million.

Bill Gates Thinks That Massive Tree Planting to Combat Climate Change Is Absurd. And He's Right

Nature and Environment

Trees help fight climate change and global warming, but not as much as we would like.

In Its Commitment to Nuclear Energy, the U.S. Is Considering Doing the Unprecedented: Reactivating a Closed Plant

Energy

The Palisades nuclear plant along Lake Michigan ceased operations in 2022. The plant opened in 1971, so it was active for 51 years.

These Researchers Say That Chimpanzees Can Talk and That the Evidence Dates Back to 1962

Nature and Environment

In fact, phonetician and cognitive scientist Axel Ekström and his team claim this evidence is online.

We Thought We Had an Accurate Date for the Origin of Life, but We Were Off by About 1.5 Billion Years

Nature and Environment

Researchers found environmental conditions for animal life 2.1 billion years ago.

Meteorologists Warn That Debby, the Next Tropical Storm in the Atlantic, Could Be on the Horizon

Nature and Environment

The current period of low cyclone activity in the Atlantic Ocean may be coming to an end.

Yellowstone’s Massive Hydrothermal Explosion Reminds Us That It’s an ‘Box of Bombs’ Visited by 4 Million People Each Year

Nature and Environment

Yellowstone proved that the “touristification” of nature helps to preserve it. Now, it can teach us something else.

A U.S. City Is ‘Depaving’ Its Streets to Combat the Heat. It Has an Ally: NASA

LUCA, the ‘Common Ancestor’ of All Living Things, Has Fascinated Us for Years. What Scientists Didn’t Know Is That It Was So Ancient

Nature and Environment

The Earth was already teeming with life 400 million years after its formation.

Hurricane Beryl Is a Grim Warning of What's to Come: An Intense Hurricane Season

South Africa Is Going to Bomb an Island With Tons of Poison. Its Goal: To Annihilate Thousands of Mice

Corn Sweat Is Real, and It’s Making the Heat Wave in the Midwest Even Worse

Tiny Creature Discovered on the Alaskan Border Is the Closest Living Relative of All Animals

We've Long Wondered Why the Chernobyl Wild Boars Were So Radioactive. It Turns Out It Has Nothing to Do With the Nuclear Disaster

The Atlantic Has Suddenly Begun Cooling at Record Speed. That Changes Everything, Even the Hurricane Season

Six Months Ago, an Autonomous Submarine Disappeared in Antarctic Waters. Now We Know What It Saw Before It Sank

Bill Gates Thinks That Massive Tree Planting to Combat Climate Change Is Absurd. And He's Right

In Its Commitment to Nuclear Energy, the U.S. Is Considering Doing the Unprecedented: Reactivating a Closed Plant

These Researchers Say That Chimpanzees Can Talk and That the Evidence Dates Back to 1962

We Thought We Had an Accurate Date for the Origin of Life, but We Were Off by About 1.5 Billion Years

Meteorologists Warn That Debby, the Next Tropical Storm in the Atlantic, Could Be on the Horizon

Yellowstone’s Massive Hydrothermal Explosion Reminds Us That It’s an ‘Box of Bombs’ Visited by 4 Million People Each Year

A U.S. City Is ‘Depaving’ Its Streets to Combat the Heat. It Has an Ally: NASA

Brazil Tested 13 Sharks off the Coast of Rio de Janeiro. All Specimens Tested Positive for Cocaine

We Knew That Hippo Races Were Fast, but We Didn’t Realize That They Spend 15% of the Race in the Air

A Species of Cactus Has Disappeared in the U.S. For the First Time, the Primary Suspect Is Sea Level Rise

LUCA, the ‘Common Ancestor’ of All Living Things, Has Fascinated Us for Years. What Scientists Didn’t Know Is That It Was So Ancient

Hurricane Beryl Is a Grim Warning of What's to Come: An Intense Hurricane Season

There’s Only One Vertebrate Capable of Living 500 Years. Scientists Have Just Discovered the Secret of Its Eternal Youth

The Color Blue Is Surprisingly Rare in Animals and Plants. There’s a Good Reason for It

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