Tag: nature

Stop Playing God! The Downside to Resurrecting Extinct Species

Resurrecting extinct species might come at a terrible cost ...

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Going Anywhere for your Hols? Basking Sharks like Winter Sun too.

Winter habits of Britain's basking sharks revealed ...

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It’s Why They Call it Skunk: Cannabis and Pollution

Legal marijuana sales creating escalating damage to the environment ...

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Waiting (and waiting) for My Man: Marine Snails as Opioid Alternative

An alternative to opioids? Compound from marine snail is potent pain reliever...

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Oceans of Lucre: Towards a Lasting ‘Blue Economy’

Marine ecologist offers suggestions for achieving a strong, lasting 'blue economy' ...

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Twitterbuzz? Bird Monitoring By Drone

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”W/dropcapoo! Bird monitoring by drone! People invent thing. People use thing for stuff. People using thing for stuff write about using thing...

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Rising Sea Levels? Global Warming? Blame Canada!

Canadian glaciers now major contributor to sea level change, UCI study shows ...

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Bite Me, Reptiles! Mammals Had Venom First

A kiss of death -- mammals were the first animals to produce venom ...

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No Walls in Nature: Range Expansion in the Animal World

Challenging traditional theories on organisms' 'range expansion'...

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More Moth News! Foreign Moths Invade EU!

Southern hemisphere moth species now resident in Portugal ...

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Cutting Trees to Save Trees. A Central Africa Paradox

Risk of tree species disappearing in central Africa 'a major concern,' say researchers ...

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Donald Trump Moth Discovered… On the Mexican Border

New species of moth named in honor of Donald Trump ahead of his swearing-in as president ...

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Crystal Clear Carbon Capture

Crystallization method offers new option for carbon capture from ambient air ...

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To Mow a Meadow (Green Scythe Fair)

Remember where your food comes from. Remember the hands that toiled for you....

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Chicken – Finger Lickin’ Caring and Intelligent

Review looks at studies on chicken intelligence, social development and emotions...

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Careful Now! : When Magic Mushrooms Turn BAD

Survey assesses both risky behaviors and positive outcomes of psilocybin use...

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Nothing New Under the Sun – How Prehistory Tackled Global Warming

Computer models find ancient solutions to modern problems ...

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Drug-Producing Artificial Leaf Can Grow Paracetemol on Mars

Artificial leaf serves as mini-factory for drugs ...

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Have An Imaginative Christmas

Famine, War, Greed. We can fix this. Just add a more rigorous imagination....

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Tracking Global Warming With Mother of Pearl : The Ocean’s Tree-Rings

Ocean temperatures faithfully recorded in mother-of-pearl ...

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Street Art Goes Rural: Swiss Erosion Grafitti

Determining erosion rates via painting...

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Modified Sawdust Mops Up Oil Spills

Sawdust reinvented into super sponge for oil spills ...

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A Wedding Without a Bagpipe is Like a Funeral

Bagpiping provides a route straight to the heart of another culture....

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Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff: Exposing Ancient Cereal Cultivation

Prehistoric plant remains highlight diverse origins of cereal domestication ...

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Return Trip? Magic Mushrooms and Cancer

Psilocybin relieves anxiety and depression in patients with advanced cancer ...

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The Unexpected Healing Power of Platypus Venom

Platypus venom could hold key to diabetes treatment ...

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Don’t Tell the Japanese. New Ways of Tracking Blue Whales

New forecast tool helps ships avoid blue whale hotspots ...

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Check Your Pants! This Ethiopian Ant Could Conquer the World

New dominant ant species discovered in Ethiopia shows potential for global invasion ...

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Greening the Battlefields (but destroying the planet?) with Transgenic Grass

New grasses neutralize toxic pollution from bombs, explosives, and munitions ...

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No, Really. You Definitely Won’t Guess What’s Cooling the Arctic

An unexpected ally in the fight against climate change. ...

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