Each March, sea turtle nesting season begins with the females' slow yet determined scooch onto Florida's shores, shoveling away sand with her speckled fins, digging a hole to lay eggs.
Plants & Animals
Dec 29, 2024
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Massive waves of up to 13 feet (four meters) are pummeling the coasts of Ecuador and Peru, leaving scores of ports closed and at least one person dead on Saturday, authorities said.
Environment
Dec 29, 2024
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Learning a pet has diabetes can be a shock. Sadly, about 20% of diabetic cats and dogs are euthanized within a year of diagnosis due to the impacts on the pets' health and their owners' lifestyle and finances.
Veterinary medicine
Dec 28, 2024
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South Florida water managers approved a breeding program for an endangered Everglades sparrow that for decades has fluttered at the center of the debate over how to move water into parched marshes to restore the wetlands.
Plants & Animals
Dec 28, 2024
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The death of a spy is rarely newsworthy, due to the secrecy surrounding it. But when a white beluga whale suspected of spying for Moscow was found dead in Norwegian waters in September, the animal soon became a minor celebrity.
Political science
Dec 28, 2024
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Last December, a farmer was burning dry grapevines in his vineyard in Deir Mar Moussa, a hill town a dozen miles east of Beirut known for its 18th-century monastery and stands of pine forest. Usually this would be dangerous, ...
Environment
Dec 28, 2024
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In bird colonies, schools of fish and cycling pelotons, significant interactions occur between individuals through the surrounding fluid. These interactions are well understood in fluids such as air and water, but what happens ...
On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most powerful telescope humans have ever sent into space.
Astronomy
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The University of Cape Town, along with the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, have conducted a large-scale study identifying significant cranial shape differences between four genetically distinct giraffe species. The findings ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has detected a new grand-design spiral galaxy as part of the PANORAMIC survey. The newfound galaxy, named Zhúlóng, is extremely massive and ...
