by Admin | Sep 16, 2019 | Climate Change, Conservation
Researchers at the University of Southern California have made a discovery that may bring hope for the world’s corals. Thus far, things have looked pretty grim for corals. About half of the world’s corals have been lost due to warming seas that make their world...
by Admin | Sep 6, 2019 | Conservation, Environmental hazards, Resources
According to a report published by researchers at the University of British Columbia, three new viruses have been discovered in endangered Chinook and sockeye salmon populations. One of those viruses is from a group never before shown to infect fish. It’s not entirely...
by Admin | Aug 30, 2019 | Information
You know how cats and dogs can get parasites like roundworms? Well, their larger kin can, too. And just recently a team of Argentinian scientists from the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research discovered that roundworms go back at least as far as big...
by Admin | Aug 23, 2019 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards, Sustainability
New research from Montana State University shows that with wildfires in the west becoming inevitable, communities that rethink what it means to live with them rather than simply rebuilding will fare better in the long run. The paper, recently published in the journal...
by Admin | Aug 5, 2019 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
While medieval Europe was recovering quite well from a long period of excessive cold and rain, things were a little different in the land that would one day become the Southwestern United States. Between the 9th and 15th centuries, about a dozen megadroughts—that is,...
