These Cities May Be At Risk Of Drowning Due To Global Warming, According To NASA

Coastal cities may experience changing sea levels if glaciers continue to melt due to climate change, NASA said. By Hannah Preston.

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Mystery Solved: How the Ancient Indus Civilization Survived Without Rivers

The rise and fall of the Indus civilization gets a new narrative. By Stephanie Pappas.

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N.B. fisherman finds lobster with Pepsi can imprinted on claw

Karissa Lindstrand had already spent five hours banding lobster claws on a boat called Honour Bound, off Grand Manan, when a blue and red logo she knew well caught her eye. It was a Pepsi can image "tattooed on the lobster's claw," said Lindstrand. Being a huge Pepsi fan — she drinks 12 cans every day — this image would have caught her interest anywhere.

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Should Animal Abuse be Considered a Violent Crime?

The typical punishments assigned to people who commit animal abuse often pale in comparison to the horrendous natures of their crimes. Here is why we should consider raising the penalty to that of a violent crime.

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What Archaeology Is Telling Us About the Real Jesus

Believers call him the Son of God. Skeptics dismiss him as legend. Now, researchers digging in the Holy Land are sifting fact from fiction.

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The Surprising Evolution of Dinosaur Drawings

Since the 1800s, paleoartists have tried to imagine what prehistoric creatures looked like—with wildly different results.

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12 year study shows dog owners are 30 percent less at risk of death from Cardiovascular disease and other causes

Cardiovascular disease accounts for over 31 percent of deaths worldwide. Every 40 seconds somebody suffers from a Myocardial Infarction (heart attack) in the United States alone, with over 4 million deaths occurring across Europe every year due to various other Cardiovascular diseases. Many of these issues can be attributed to damaging lifestyle choices such as smoking, drug abuse, poor diet, lack of exercise or excessive alcohol intake. Other people simply develop unfortunate infections that lead to endocarditis and other potentially fatal illnesses.

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FDA warns of commercial dog bone treats after 90 illnesses, 15 dog deaths

(WZTV) -- The Food and Drug Administration is warning dog owners to think twice about stuffing your pet's stocking with dog bones over the holidays.The FDA says it received about 68 reports of pet illnesses related to bone treats frequently purchased at st

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Bali volcano alert raised to highest level

Fears of an imminent major eruption of Bali's Mount Agung have increased and the evacuation zone around the volcano has been widened. Indonesian authorities have raised the state of alert to its highest level. The island's airport has now closed, leaving thousands stranded in the tourist hotspot. Authorities say dark smoke and ash have been billowing up to 3,400m (11,150ft) above the mountain's summit, which has also been emitting fire.

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Fears for world's rarest penguin as population plummets

Almost half the breeding population of the world’s most endangered penguin species, the yellow-eyed penguin, has disappeared in one part of New Zealand and conservation groups believe commercial fishing is to blame. The yellow-eyed penguin is endemic to New Zealand’s South Island and sub-Antarctic islands, where there are just 1,600 to 1,800 left in the wild, down from nearly 7,000 in 2000.

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Keystone's existing pipeline spills far more than predicted to regulators

TransCanada Corp's (TRP.TO) existing Keystone pipeline has leaked substantially more oil, and more often, in the United States than indicated in risk assessments the company provided to regulators before the project began operating in 2010, according to documents reviewed by Reuters.

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Keystone spills larger than company predicted before it was built

Spills from the Keystone pipeline, including one in South Dakota this month, have exceeded the amount predicted by its developer before the pipeline began operating, Reuters

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''Modern Air Is a Little Too Clean'': The Rise of Air Pollution Denial

Despite report after report linking air pollution to deterioration of the lungs, heart and brain, Professor Robert Phalen believes the air is "too clean" for children. After all, everybody needs a bit of immune-system-boosting dirt in their lungs. "Modern air is a little too clean for optimum health," he told the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world's largest scientific societies, in 2012.

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An Incredibly Rare Black Rhino Has Been Born at an Australian Zoo

Australia's Taronga Western Plains Zoo has a new resident - a new baby black rhino, born to mum Bakhita and dad Kwanzaa. Born on Halloween, the new calf is yet to be named, but he's the second black rhino calf the zoo has welcomed this year as part of its concerted black rhino breeding program.

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‘It Was a Blood Bath’: Freight Trains Kill 110 Reindeer in Norway

Animal advocacy groups urge speed limits, new fencing and digital tracking to prevent more accidents.

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On a remote atoll, a concrete dome holds a toxic timebomb. And it's leaking

On a remote atoll, thousands of cubic metres of radioactive waste lies buried under a concrete dome. Now rising sea levels are threatening to spill its contents into the Pacific Ocean.

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Ancient sword and other incredible items discovered during dig at Glenfield Park

The findings have national significance

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Scientists grow baby coral on Barrier Reef

Scientists have stepped in as environmental matchmakers by breeding baby coral on the Great Barrier Reef in a move that could have worldwide significance. Coral eggs and sperm were collected from Heron Island's reef during last November's coral spawning to produce more than a million larvae.

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Where unsellable wine goes to die and become fuel for your car’s gas tank

In the wine industry, when your product outweighs your demand, there are few ways to legally dispose of it. By John Capone.

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Bird gets lost at sea, accidentally spawns an entire new species on a remote island

If you get lost at sea and find yourself on an island you’d probably try to build a fire, pile some sticks and stones into a makeshift home and maybe even try to signal for help. When one misguided bird found himself in the same situation, he didn’t wallow in his own self pity; he created his own entirely new species. Over the past 36 years, scientists have been closely studying the incredible story of an entirely new bird species that seemingly came out of nowhere, and it all started with one poor finch who lost his way.

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Birds Rub Ants on Themselves, and No One Knows Exactly Why

It’s called “anting,” and it is weird. By Eric Grundhauser.

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Why do archaeological fraudsters work so hard to deceive us?

Why do archaeological fraudsters work so hard to deceive us? Because bad science makes for good stories. By Ted Scheinman.

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The Climate Crisis? It’s Capitalism, Stupid

The work of saving the planet is not technical, it’s political. By Benjamin Y. Fong.

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In Peru’s Deserts, Melting Glaciers Are a Godsend (Until They’re Gone)

Accelerating glacial melt in the Andes caused by climate change has set off a gold rush downstream, letting the desert bloom. But as the ice vanishes, the vast farms below may do the same.

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Why Pterosaurs Were the Weirdest Wonders on Wings

New discoveries are changing long-held views of the biggest, meanest, and most bizarre animals that ever flew.

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As Germany hosts green summit, energy firm razes nearby forest

Less than an hour from the COP23 summit in Bonn lies an example of Germany's dirty environmental secret: An ancient forest that is being razed by a coal mine.

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The Mate Selection Trapdoor

Tracing the evolution of hidden sexual preferences. By Michael J. Ryan.

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Dandelion fluff makes a surprisingly effective parachute

The physics of dandelion dispersal could inspire windborne microdrones.

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Why did the most abundant bird in the world go extinct in just 50 years?

The passenger pigeon numbered in the billions but went extinct very quickly because of low genetic diversity as well as being widely hunted.

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Wanted: Aggressive Lake Michigan protection

Environmental activists and particularly Chicago’s surfing community welcomed news this week that the city of Chicago is initiating legal action against a Lake Michigan polluter based in Indiana. For years, surfers have traded stories of skin rashes and infections they blame on oil and chemical pollutants along the curved beaches of northwest Indiana. There, lake enthusiasts share a coastline with steel mills and oil refineries. Surfers know to follow certain protocols: Wear a wetsuit. Don’t swallow the water. Shower immediately afterward.

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Global catastrophe is just two melted glaciers away

New research reveals scary projections for rapid sea-level rise. By Eric Holthaus.

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Why Lost Ice Means Lost Hope for an Inuit Village

The only road to Rigolet, Labrador, is the ice. But climate change is making that ice vanish, and the mental health impact runs deep.

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Every Other Summer Will Shatter Heat Records Within a Decade

Think of the stickiest, record-hot summer you've ever experienced, whether you're 30 or 60 years old. In 10 years or less, that miserable summer will happen every second year across most of the US and Canada, the Mediterranean, and much of Asia, according to a study to be published in the open access journal Earth's Future.

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These New Eco-Friendly Bamboo Toy Cars Are Fully Biodegradable

Australian based designers Made of Bamboo, have designed a collection of eco-friendly bamboo toy cars that come in four designs.

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Miles From Flint, Residents Turn Off Taps in New Water Crisis

Waste from a shoe factory has tainted groundwater in a Grand Rapids suburb. Some residents are skeptical of Michigan officials, who botched the response in Flint.

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Night being 'lost' to artificial light

A study of pictures of Earth by night has revealed that artificial light is growing brighter and more extensive every year. Between 2012 and 2016, the planet's artificially lit outdoor area grew by more than 2% per year. Scientists say a "loss of night" in many countries is having negative consequences for "flora, fauna, and human well-being".

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Australian fishermen rescued after sleeping on roof of stranded car 'for days' as crocodiles circled

wo men stranded in the outback of Australia spent four days on top of their car after finding themselves surrounded by rising waters filled with circling crocodiles. The men were on a fishing trip in the remote Kimberley region in north-west Australia when their four-by-four became stuck in a tidal bog.

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Bird seen becoming new species

A population of finches on the Galapagos is discovered in the process of becoming a new species.

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How public art helped to shape New York

The city installs more public art than any other in the world, and it serves developers as well as artists 

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A 3,000-year-old castle has been discovered in a lake

A lost 3,000-year-old castle has been discovered by divers and researchers in Turkey’s Lake Van. The spectacular ruins are thought to be those of a fortress built by the Uratu civilisation which flourished in the iron age between the 9th and 6th centuries BC. The discovery was made by archaeologists from the Van Yüzüncü Yıl University working with a team of divers.

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Energy-efficient light bulbs increasing light pollution, new study suggests

Despite an increase in energy-efficient LED bulbs, surface light pollution has increased around the world, according to a team of international researchers led by Christopher Kyba, who's originally from Alberta.

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The week in wildlife – in pictures

Brown bears, grey seals and an errant crocodile are among this week’s pick of images from the natural world

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Lost medieval village discovered in Denmark

The site of a village described in written sources from the Middle Ages has been found by archaeologists in Denmark. Traces of three courtyards surrounded by a ditch marks out an area which archaeologists have interpreted as the centre of a village dating back to the Middle Ages at Tollerup in eastern Denmark, reports ScienceNordic.

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Smiling human faces are attractive to dogs – thanks to oxytocin

Researchers in the University of Helsinki’s Canine Mind research project found that oxytocin made dogs interested in smiling human faces. It also made them see angry faces as less threatening. Associated with affection and trust, the hormone oxytocin is probably a key factor in the interaction between dogs and humans.

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Four Centuries of Mapping the Subterranean World

Boston Public Library's Leventhal Map Center is exhibiting maps of volcanoes, catacombs, mines, subways, sewage systems, and other underground cartography.

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Poland defiant despite two-week warning to stop illegal deforestation or be fined €100,000 a day

he Polish environment minister has claimed Poland is fully compliant with the EU over controversial logging in one of Europe’s last areas of primeval forest after it was threatened with fines of at least €100,000 a day if it refused to end the practice. At a press conference on Tuesday Jan Szyszko, Poland’s environment minister, insisted Poland was in “100 per cent compliance with European Commission recommendations” over management of the Bialowieza Forest.

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Lost medieval village discovered in Denmark

The village was described in written sources from the Middle Ages but archaeologists have only just found the site.

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The Library of Congress Acquires and Digitizes a Rare Mesoamerican Codex

The Library of Congress has acquired and digitized the 16th-century Codex Quetzalecatzin, a rare Mesoamerican record of early European contact.

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Flight Stream

Experiment to map many of the airline flights between world airports. It's <strong>not</strong> showing real time positions (which would be amazing but I don't have that data) but rather, great-circle routes between major airports based on flight data from the Open Flights

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How Pumpkin Pie Sparked a 19th-Century Culture War

American politicians in the South blamed Thanksgiving for spreading Yankee values. By Ariel Knoebel.

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