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- Following in polar bears' footprints: DNA from snow tracks could help monitor threatened animals December 4, 2023Polar bears are icons of the Arctic, elusive and vulnerable. Detailed monitoring of their populations is crucial for their conservation—but because polar bears are so difficult to find, we are missing critical data about population size and how well-connected those populations are. Scientists have now developed a new tool to help: DNA analysis using skin […]
- Teaching physics from the din of flying discs December 4, 2023Disc golf is booming, with record numbers of players turning up each year to partake in the disc-throwing sport. It is also whizzing and whistling. In fact, the sound a disc makes while soaring through the air toward its target is full of information about how fast the disc is flying and how quickly it […]
- Earth is running a fever. And UN climate talks are focusing on the contagious effect on human health December 3, 2023With Planet Earth running a fever, U.N. climate talks focused Sunday on the contagious effects on human health.
- El Niño helped steer storms away from U.S. this hurricane season. What about next year? December 3, 2023This year, a record-hot Atlantic Ocean went toe-to-toe with a strong El Niño for which weather phenomena would steer the hurricane season. The winner?
- A six-planet solar system in perfect synchrony has been found in the Milky Way December 3, 2023Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago.
- Bottlenose dolphins can sense electric fields, study shows December 3, 2023A small team of bio-scientists from the University of Rostock's Institute for Biosciences and Nuremberg Zoo's Behavioral Ecology and Conservation Lab, both in Germany, has found evidence that bottlenose dolphins can sense electric fields. In their study, reported in the Journal of Experimental Biology, the group tested the ability of two captive bottlenose dolphins to […]
- Nations rally behind renewables at COP28 climate talks December 3, 2023Nearly 120 nations pledged to triple the world's renewable energy within seven years at UN climate talks Saturday as the United States pushed to crank up nuclear capacity and slash methane emissions.
- To greenwash or do the right thing? Corporate dilemmas at COP28 December 3, 2023They call the giant climate business expo running outside the COP28 United Nations talks in Dubai the "green zone".
- As Dubai hosts climate talks, its air pollution soars December 3, 2023Dubai's glitzy skyline was obscured by a blanket of smog rated as "unhealthy" on Sunday as thousands of delegates attended a COP28 conference dedicated to the harmful effects of air pollution.
- 50 oil and gas companies pledge to cut operational emissions December 3, 2023Fifty oil and gas companies representing 40 percent of global production pledged to decarbonize their operations by 2050 at the UN's COP28 climate talks in Dubai on Saturday.