Sixty-three percent. That’s the proportion of mammal species that vanished from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula around 30 million years ago, after Earth’s climate shifted from swampy to icy.
The Climate-Driven Mass Extinction No One Had Seen
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Feather Phenomenon: Radar Indicates Stronger Hurricanes Trap, Transport More Birds
Whether birds get caged in the eye of a hurricane may depend on the intensity and totality of the chaos beyond the calm, says a novel study from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Matthew Van Den Broeke.
Satellite Images Can Help With Environmental Land Management, Say Surrey Scientists
This discovery opens up cost-effective routes to monitoring, reporting, and verifying land management incentive schemes, such as the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ new Environmental Land Management scheme.
Unprecedented Rise of Heat and Rainfall Extremes in Observational Data
A 90-fold increase in the frequency of monthly heat extremes in the past ten years compared to 1951-1980 has been found by scientists in observation data.
Helping Coral Reefs Survive Under Climate Change
Coral reefs are the rainforests of the seas, and 30 percent of all marine biodiversity depends on them.
Something Fishy Going On? Recent Discovery Hints at Northward Shift in Fish Distribution
The recent discovery of a sleeper fish in Akita Prefecture, Japan, by researchers from the University of Tsukuba is a first for this area and the northernmost record for this species.
