ENVIRONMENT

You are what you eat, it turns out—even if your last meal was 150 million years ago. While the grub itself may be long gone, a record of dinosaurs' favorite foods has been stowed away in their...
An international research team from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and from Buenos Aires and Washington D.C. has identified a new fossil from central Germany, offering fresh insights into the early evolutionary history of archosauromorphs. of...

Vanishing shores: Coastal geologist issues urgent call to save the Gulf Coast

For John B. Anderson, the Gulf Coast is personal. The W. Maurice Ewing Professor Emeritus of Oceanography at Rice University spent his early years...

How much water is left for nature? The search for the appropriate environmental flow

In many rivers, only a small amount of streamflow remains for nature after water is diverted for hydropower production. In light of climate change...

Where do Antarctic submarine canyons get their marine life?

Submarine canyons around Antarctica tend to have less sea ice, higher sea surface temperatures, and more biomass such as phytoplankton blooms than the shelves...

Study reveals 8 million years of ‘Green Arabia’

A new study reveals the modern arid desert between Africa and Saudi Arabia was once regularly lush and green with rivers and lakes over...

Ancient lakes and rivers unearthed in Arabia’s vast desert

The desert that we see today in Arabia was once a region that repeatedly underwent "green" periods in the past, as a result of...

South Korea wildfires ‘largest on record’: disaster chief

Wildfires in South Korea are now the largest and deadliest on record, having burned more forest and killed more people than any previous blaze,...

The amount of fresh water available for lithium mining is vastly overestimated, hydrologists warn

New research into lithium mining in the "Lithium Triangle" of Chile, Argentina and Bolivia—source of more than half of the world's lithium resources—shows that...

‘Like the apocalypse’: S. Korea wildfires tear through mountains

Truck driver Lee Seung-joo was driving through South Korea's Andong mountains when the wildfires hit, engulfing the area in flames and turning it into...

Back in the pink: Senegal salt lake gets its color back

The waters of Senegal's Lake Retba are back to their famous pink hues three years after floods washed away their rosy tinge—and businessfolk and...

Giving rivers room to move: How rethinking flood management can benefit people and nature

When we think about flood management, higher stop banks, stronger levees and concrete barriers usually come to mind. But what if the best solution—for...

‘It was beautiful’: Mount Kenya’s glaciers melting away

Charles Kibaki Muchiri traced the water trickling across the surface of the Lewis Glacier with his fingers, illustrating how quickly climate change is melting...

Massive, long-lived trees discovered in the Tanzanian rainforest are a new species

A team of botanists with members from Muse–Museo delle Scienze, Udzungwa Corridor LTD, Via Grazia Deledda and the National Museum of Kenya has discovered...

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