The forces of fire and ice shaped Yellowstone National Park over thousands of years. It took decades longer for humans to tame it enough for tourists to visit, often from the comfort of their cars.
Environment
Jun 15, 2022
0
22
Scientists on Saturday began a five-month mission to study how plastic pollution in Africa's main rivers and climate change stresses are impacting microorganisms in the Atlantic ocean, they announced.
Environment
Apr 24, 2022
1
113
Six in 10 people will be living in cities by 2030. This is concerning. Cities are responsible for over 70% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Yet cities can also do a lot to mitigate climate change and help people adapt ...
Environment
Apr 21, 2022
0
13
South Africa, the continent's most industrialised country, has largely escaped the tropical cyclones that regularly hit its neighbours.
Environment
Apr 18, 2022
0
50
Though water is central to our everyday lives and indeed life itself, we often mark World Water Day on March 22 not by reminding ourselves of all that water brings, but of the consequences of its absence or contamination.
Environment
Mar 22, 2022
0
5
An international team of astronomers has performed timing observations of an eccentric millisecond pulsar known as PSR J0955−6150. Results of the observational campaign, published March 1 on the arXiv pre-print server, ...
One of the world's most storied shipwrecks, Ernest Shackleton's Endurance, has been discovered off the coast of Antarctica more than a century after its sinking, explorers announced Wednesday.
Archaeology
Mar 9, 2022
0
2828
As part of HS2's archaeology program, archaeologists have excavated a Roman town in Fleet Marston, near Aylesbury, discovering more about what life was like in Roman Britain, two thousand years ago. Archaeologists from COPA ...
Archaeology
Feb 8, 2022
0
39
South African space science had a big day on 13 January 2022. The Cape Peninsula University of Technology, based in Cape Town, launched its third satellite mission into space from the Cape Canaveral rocket launch site in ...
Planetary Sciences
Jan 24, 2022
0
10
While people often talk about "rural America" as if it describes just one way of living, a new study identified five different types of rural communities in Ohio.
Other
Jan 13, 2022
0
27
