More than 15,000 plant species have a high probability of being considered threatened or near-threatened under a new model used to predict conservation status.
Idaho Study Predicts Increase in Global List of Threatened Plant Species
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USGS Announces Largest Continuous Oil Assessment in Texas and New Mexico
The U.S. Department of the Interior announced the Wolfcamp Shale and overlying Bone Spring Formation in the Delaware Basin portion of Texas and New Mexico’s Permian Basin province contain an estimated mean of 46.3 billion barrels of oil.
Fighting Smog Supports Solar Power
The air in Beijing is often very bad. The city sinks under a brown cover made of exhaust gases from industry, cars and coal fires, which blow a lot of harmful particulate matter, soot, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides into the air.
Whale bones tell visceral tale of orca history
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how do you quantify the experience of holding a whale skull?
Scientists Find Causes of Firenado in Deadly Carr Fire
A destructive fire-generated vortex – a massive stream of rising, spinning, smoke, ash and fire – that topped out at 17,000 feet above the earth, accelerated the Carr Fire that killed eight people and devastated a widespread area in the Redding, California region in July 2018.
Agricultural Waste Drives Us Closer to Greener Transport
Composite materials made from agricultural waste could be used to produce sustainable, lightweight and low-cost applications in the automotive and marine industries.
