The number of western monarch butterflies wintering along the California coast has plummeted precipitously to a record low, putting the orange-and-black insects closer to extinction, researchers announced Tuesday.
Plants & Animals
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Your dog bounds heedlessly into a local lake or pond, playfully splashing in the water.
Plants & Animals
Aug 16, 2019
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Best known as a vast, cold tundra, Russia's sprawling Siberia region is being transformed by climate change that has brought with it warmer temperatures, forest fires and growing swarms of hungry moth larvae.
Environment
Jun 9, 2020
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Every autumn we are treated to one of nature's finest seasonal annual transitions: leaf colour change and fall.
Environment
Apr 16, 2019
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A large international team of researchers has found evidence of a connection between an increase in the atmospheric vapor deficit and worldwide vegetation loss. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the ...
Spring brings warmer weather, blooming flowers and the unfortunate re-emergence of the spotted lanternfly, a prolific invasive insect reviled for the havoc it wreaks on forests and cropland. Today, you may see egg masses—be ...
Ecology
Mar 17, 2023
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Every month or two, a massive pulse of clouds, rainfall and wind moves eastward around the Earth near the equator, providing the tropics their famous thunderstorms.
Earth Sciences
Dec 28, 2018
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In September 2013, severe storms struck Colorado with prolonged, heavy rainfall, resulting in at least nine deaths, 1,800 evacuations and 900 homes destroyed or damaged. The eight-day storm dumped more than 17 inches of rain, ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 24, 2017
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America's winter wonderland is starting out this season as anything but traditional.
Environment
Dec 4, 2021
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For centuries, the Abenaki people of the northeastern U.S. and Canada looked at maple sap as a gift from their creator, arriving at a time just before spring when their ancestors' food reserves were low.
Plants & Animals
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