KINGSTON, Jamaica — Political and business leaders are gathering on a billionaire’s private island Friday to back a program aimed at expanding protection for the Caribbean’s imperiled coasts and waters.The “Caribbean Challenge” calls for special protected zones along at least…
Fish and other sea life have been moving toward Earth’s poles in search of cooler waters, part of a worldwide, decades-long migration documented for the first time by a study released Wednesday.The research, published in the journal Nature, provides more…
In addition to Northern Virginia, the plane is expected to stop in Phoenix, Dallas and St. Louis, before reaching its final destination, New York. Borschberg compared the Solar Impulse team to early-20th-century aviators who tried to fly coast to coast…
JOHANNESBURG — Mozambique’s rhinoceros population was wiped out more than a century ago by big game hunters. Reconstituted several years ago, it has again been driven to extinction, or to the brink of extinction, by poachers seeking their horns for…
A team of entomologists from the University of Illinois has found a possible link between the practice of feeding commercial honeybees high-fructose corn syrup and the collapse of honeybee colonies around the world. The team outlines their research and findings…
It’s a tough world from the moment of conception for a sand tiger shark. When a female gets pregnant, it’s usually with multiple offspring of several different male sharks. As soon as the fetuses are old enough, they begin a…
“We can find many of the roots of our behaviors in animals.”For her study, 109 vervet monkeys living in groups in the wild were given a choice of food tinted pink or blue by the researchers. One color for each…
IF President Obama blocks the Keystone XL pipeline once and for all, he’ll do Canada a favor.Canada’s tar sands formations, landlocked in northern Alberta, are a giant reserve of carbon-saturated energy — a mixture of sand, clay and a viscous…
What better day than Earth Day — the 43rd incarnation — than to ask where President Obama’s environmental record stands at this point in his presidency, and what are the most important decisions that lie ahead of him during his second…
Here are eight charts that explain where the public stands on climate change. via How Americans see global warming — in 8 charts.
