The Daldykan River in Russia, which flows through the industrial city of Norilsk above the Arctic Circle, changed from its usual blue-green color to bright red over the last couple of days. There is no official scientific report identifying a reason for the change, but two theories have emerged. The first is that the red […]
Sep 8 2016 | Posted in
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In the waning days of summer, sky-watchers can get an amazing view of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, in the evening skies. When viewed away from city lights, it is visible as a faint hazy band stretching from east to west overhead. For those in brightly lit suburbs, binoculars can help spot swarms of […]
Sep 7 2016 | Posted in
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HONOLULU, HAWAII efforts to save the giant panda, a worldwide symbol of wildlife conservation for half a century, are paying off: The black-and-white bear is no longer endangered, the international body for species protection said on Sunday. Native to Chinese bamboo forests, the panda was upgraded from endangered to vulnerable on the Red List of Threatened Species, […]
Tiny pieces of plastic in personal beauty products, that end up in the oceans and are swallowed by marine life, will be banned from sale in the UK by the end of 2017, the government is to announce on Saturday. The move comes just days after MPs called for a ban on so-called microbeads, and sees […]
Sep 4 2016 | Posted in
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The deadsea otters arrived at Melissa Miller's Santa Cruz, California, lab with bright-yellow eyes and gums, their livers destroyed. One by one, Miller, a marine-wildlife veterinarian, eliminated the potential causes of death until "the last thing I was left with seemed so implausible that I thought I was going crazy." The otters had been poisoned by […]
Sep 3 2016 | Posted in
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The much anticipated results of the largest ever continent-wide wildlife survey, the Great Elephant Census, will be released tomorrow at the World Conservation Congress in Hawaii. The worrying finding: Africa now has 352,271 savanna elephants left in 93 percent of the species’ range. The aerial survey covered 18 African countries. In 15 of those, where […]
Sep 1 2016 | Posted in
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