A drought that parched the southwestern U.S. Extraordinary flooding in the Mid-Atlantic states.
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Tree Cavities for Wild Honeybees
The forests in Europe provide habitat for around 80,000 colonies of wild honeybees.
Trashed Farmland Could Be a Conservation Treasure
Low-productivity agricultural land could be transformed into millions of hectares of conservation reserves across the world, according to University of Queensland-led research.
Sorghum Study Illuminates Relationship Between Humans, Crops and the Environment in Domestication
A new study that examines the genetics behind the bitter taste of some sorghum plants and one of Africa’s most reviled bird species illustrates how human genetics, crops and the environment influence one another in the process of plant domestication.
Water Common – yet Scarce – in Exoplanets
The most extensive survey of atmospheric chemical compositions of exoplanets to date has revealed trends that challenge current theories of planet formation and has implications for the search for water in the solar system and beyond.
Astronomy Picture of the Day - N63A: Supernova Remnant in Visible and X-ray
What has this supernova left behind? As little as 2,000 years ago, light from a massive stellar explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) first reached planet Earth.
