Utqiagvik, 2022-05-08. Credit: Elisabeth Kruger, World Wildlife Fund Polar bears are icons of the Arctic, elusive and vulnerable. Detailed monitoring of their populations is crucial for their conservation—but because polar bears are so difficult to find, we are missing critical data about population size and how well-connected those populations are. Scientists have now developed a …
More married couples than ever are opting to go childless. Here’s how to make the most of this … [+] decision. getty Traditional wisdom suggests that we all have an innate desire to have kids, and not giving in to this desire comes at the cost of regret. However, according to a recent study published …
A COP28 visitor in Dubai engages with “Passage of Water,” an immersive installation that sounds an … [+] alarm on the dwindling supply of global freshwater. Yiyun Kang/Google Arts & Culture Looking at the satellite images side by side, it’s impossible to miss the difference. In one shot, China’s largest freshwater lake brims with bright …
Sarah Neggazi holds a sign that reads “this is a climate emergency” during a demonstration at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Credit: AP Photo/Peter Dejong With Planet Earth running a fever, U.N. climate talks focused Sunday on the contagious effects on human health. Under a brown …
Of the 241 online survey respondents who indicated that they were suffering from post-Covid-19 … [+] vaccination syndrome (PVS), 71% reported experiencing exercise intolerance, 69% excessive fatigue 63% some kind of numbness, 53% brain fog and 63% neuropathy. (Photo by Peter Byrne/PA Images via Getty Images) PA Images via Getty Images Since the Covid-19 vaccines …
The sun in extreme ultraviolet light as seen by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory in October 2014. NASA/SDO An international team consisting of scientists from nine countries has published a detailed study on a lesser-known solar storm—named Chapman-Silverman event after two astronomers who collected the first data—that hit Earth in February 1872. Their findings confirm that …
The existing wooden judging tower in Teahupoo is believed to be unsafe. The president of French Polynesia has questioned whether 2024 Olympic surfing can go ahead at the planned site in Tahiti, saying he was concerned about safety and damage to coral from a planned judging tower. A construction barge slated to install a new …
Credit: CC0 Public Domain This year, a record-hot Atlantic Ocean went toe-to-toe with a strong El Niño for which weather phenomena would steer the hurricane season. The winner? “The record-warm Atlantic came out on top,” said Phillip Klotzbach, a meteorologist and researcher at Colorado State University. “It wasn’t that the El Niño wasn’t there and …
Patients at Manuel J. Santos Hospital in Butuan City, southern Philippines, are evacuated after an earthquake, Saturday evening, Dec. 2, 2023. A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 struck Saturday off the southern Philippine coast, prompting many villagers to flee their homes in panic after Philippine authorities issued a tsunami warning. Credit: AP …
Overview of the experimental setup during a trial. (A) Underwater view of a dolphin stationing inside the apparatus during a trial. (B) Close-up view of the dolphin stationing inside the apparatus. (C) Close-up schematic view of the experimental setup during a trial. Credit: Journal of Experimental Biology (2023). DOI: 10.1242/jeb.245845 A small team of bio-scientists …