Monarch butterflies return to Mexico on annual migration
The first monarch butterflies have appeared in the mountaintop forests of central Mexico where they spend the winter, Mexico's Environment Department said Saturday.
The first monarch butterflies have appeared in the mountaintop forests of central Mexico where they spend the winter, Mexico's Environment Department said Saturday.
Plants & Animals
Nov 6, 2022
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In a new study, researchers at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory find that the U.S. Atlantic Coast is becoming a breeding ground for rapidly intensifying hurricanes. Fueled by environmental ...
Environment
Oct 17, 2022
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Take a drive down England's M40 motorway and chances are you'll see a large bird with a forked tail overhead searching for roadkill: the red kite.
Plants & Animals
Sep 28, 2022
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Firefighters raced Tuesday to contain a massive blaze devastating a national park in the Brazilian capital, which is suffering from a heat wave and more than four months of drought.
Environment
Sep 6, 2022
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With China's biggest freshwater lake reduced to just 25% of its usual size by a severe drought, work crews are digging trenches to keep water flowing to one of the country's key rice-growing regions.
Environment
Aug 23, 2022
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Vermont farmer Brian Kemp is used to seeing the pastures at Mountain Meadows Farm grow slower in the hot, late summer, but this year the grass is at a standstill.
Environment
Aug 15, 2022
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Researchers have discovered a new gene in barley and wheat that controls the angle of root growth in soil, opening the door to new cereal varieties with deeper roots that are less susceptible to drought and nutrient stress, ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 25, 2022
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When it comes to the world's climate, in the past decade, Earth keeps sending us its summer siren's call.
Earth Sciences
Jul 25, 2022
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America's national parks are in crisis, and the environmental disaster unfolding at Yellowstone National Park is the latest example of extreme weather driven by climate change battering parkland.
Environment
Jun 20, 2022
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Moussa Fatimi's wheat field was once part of a thriving Syrian breadbasket. Now, he can't even grow enough to feed his family, and the land has been turned over to animals.
Agriculture
Jun 6, 2022
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