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Albatrosses From Space: Wildlife Detectives Needed!
British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and RSPB are recruiting albatross detectives to help to search for wandering albatrosses in satellite images taken from space.
Spring Forward: Changing Climate’s Early Winter Wakeup Call Is a Buzz Kill for Bumblebees
uOttawa Biology study finds climate change is waking bumblebees earlier from winter hibernation, putting the species at risk with impact on human agricultural crops.
Faster in the Past: New Seafloor Images – The Highest Resolution of Any Taken off the West Antarctic Ice Sheet – Upend Understanding of Thwaites Glacier Retreat
The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica – about the size of Florida – has been an elephant in the room for scientists trying to make global sea level rise predictions.
A Half-Century of Loss in Northwest Greenland
A pair of satellite images acquired almost 50 years apart reveals striking changes to the glaciers and ice caps in northwest Greenland.
Could the Drying Up of Europe’s Great Rivers Be the New Normal?
Along the fabled Danube River, which snakes its way for 1,800 miles from the Black Forest in Germany to the Black Sea in Romania, scores of towns — such as the small Romanian port of Zimnicea on the Bulgarian border — depend on the waterway for their livelihood.