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Credit: The Conversation The U.S. government is investing over US$7 billion in the coming years to try to manage the nation’s escalating wildfire crisis. That includes a commitment to treat at least 60 million acres in the next 10 years by expanding forest-thinning efforts and controlled burns. While that sounds like a lot—60 million acres …
Traffic on Interstate 35 passes a Microsoft data center, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, in West Des Moines, Iowa. Microsoft has been amassing a cluster of data centers to power its cloud computing services for more than a decade. Its fourth and fifth data centers in the city are due to open later this year. Credit: …
From minuscule moss to colourful flowers and tall trees. Credit: Philip Donoghue / James Clark Plants range from simple seaweeds and single-celled pond scum, through to mosses, ferns and huge trees. Paleontologists like us have long debated exactly how this diverse range of shapes and sizes emerged, and whether plants emerged from algae into multicellular …
Credit: jamesteohart, Shutterstock Woodside Energy this week announced it would start seismic testing for its Scarborough gas project off Australia’s west coast, before reversing the decision in the face of a legal challenge from Traditional Owners. Seismic testing is highly controversial in marine environments. The federal regulator (the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management …
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain As African swine fever stalks the EU’s biggest livestock population, researchers aim to deploy a vaccine to halt the disease’s spread and shield millions of animals. The fate of millions of pigs in Europe could be decided this coming winter in a Hungarian forest. There, EU researchers plan to test a …
Dr Dave Spratt is a retired CSIRO scientist who spent his career working with the parasites of Australian wildlife. Credit: CSIRO A neurosurgeon in Canberra removed a nematode that was living inside a person’s brain in 2022. With 50 years of experience, retired CSIRO parasitologist Dr. Dave Spratt was instantly able to identify the species …
A fox strolls by a camera “trap” with its meal. Credit: Gelmi Candusso, et. al. Raccoons may be Toronto’s unofficial mascot, but the furry creatures that plunder our green bins are far from the only wild animals that live among us. “Toronto has a lot of wildlife,” says Tiziana Gelmi Candusso, postdoctoral researcher in the …
Credit: Pei Zhang Shape and color changing are key survival traits for many animals. Chameleons can change their body to hide from predators, to reflect their moods, or even to defend their territory, while some soft-bodied animal-like octopuses, squids, and cuttlefish can change both their color and shape to signal or camouflage. Mimicking these capabilities …
A burrowing bettong in the cat-free fenced area of Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary where it has been reintroduced. Cats drove this species to extinction on the mainland. Credit: Brad Leue/Australian Wildlife Conservancy, CC BY Federal Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has released a draft feral cat management plan. Its aim is to reduce the devastating impact of …
Jupiter planet and Callisto moon in the outer space. 3d render getty Long posited as a potential human outpost in science fiction, Jupiter’s icy moon of Callisto largely remains a mystery to real life planetary scientists. As one of the least studied of Jupiter and Saturn’s large moons, many researchers basically consider it a dead …