This island of Fiji appears to be "bookended" by tropical cyclones in imagery from the NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP satellite. Tropical Cyclone Donna is west of Fiji and newly developed Tropical Cyclone Ella has developed east of ...
Earth Sciences
May 9, 2017
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Biodiversity continues to decline globally, but nowhere is the loss more pronounced than in Aotearoa New Zealand, which has the highest proportion of threatened indigenous species in the world.
Plants & Animals
Nov 14, 2023
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At least seven newly created mysterious craters have now been officially discovered in Siberia, though satellite imagery suggests there may be as many as 20. The discovery of the first three last year caused a small media ...
Archaeologists from University College Dublin, working with colleagues from Serbia and Slovenia, have uncovered a previously unknown network of massive sites in the heart of Europe that could explain the emergence of the ...
Archaeology
Nov 20, 2023
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Scientists at British Antarctic Survey are using satellite images to track the colossal iceberg A23a.
Earth Sciences
Jan 18, 2024
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In a peer-reviewed report released today, researchers have identified more than 100 million hectares of lost lowland tropical rain forests—restoration hotspots—spread out across Central and South America, Africa and Southeast ...
Environment
Jul 3, 2019
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More than 60 percent of deforested areas of the Brazilian Amazon forest are used for grazing cattle, while only five percent is used for agriculture, a new government study said.
Environment
Sep 4, 2011
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A team of researchers with members from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Colorado State University reports that approximately a third of the rivers in the U.S. have changed color over the past 34 years. ...
More than 1,200 years ago, flightless elephant birds roamed the island of Madagascar and laid eggs bigger than footballs. While these ostrich-like giants are now extinct, new research from CU Boulder and Curtin University ...
Evolution
Feb 28, 2023
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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers made up of members with diverse, multi-national backgrounds has found a way to construct population density maps using cellphone data. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National ...
