Tag: humans

What to know about Vanuatu, the Pacific island nation struggling to recover from a massive earthquake

EARTHQUAKES21/12/2024

A search expanded on Thursday for those killed or trapped alive by an earthquake in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, as rescue workers arriving from abroad fanned out through the capital, Port Vila, encountering flattened...

Russian oil spill contaminates 50km of Black Sea beaches

GEOLOGY21/12/2024

Russia Wednesday expanded an operation to clean up thousands of tonnes of oil that spilt into the sea and contaminated 50 kilometers of beaches after tanker ships were wrecked in a storm. An aging Russian oil tanker broke up...

Muddy footprints suggest 2 species of early humans were neighbors in Kenya 1.5 million years ago

Uncategorized01/12/2024

Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were nearby neighbors some 1.5 million years ago. The footprints were...

The evidence is mounting: Humans were responsible for the extinction of large mammals

PALEONTOLOGY02/07/2024

The debate has raged for decades: Was it humans or climate change that led to the extinction of many species of large mammals, birds,...

Should we send humans to Pluto?

ASTRONOMY09/01/2024

Universe Today has examined the potential for sending humans to Jupiter's icy moon, Europa, the planet Venus, and Saturn's largest moon, Titan, all despite...

Humans are still hunting for aliens: Here’s how astronomers are looking for life beyond Earth

ASTRONOMY06/03/2023

We have long been fascinated with the idea of alien life. The earliest written record presenting the idea of "aliens" is seen in the...

Where are the best places to land humans on Mars?

MARS17/12/2022

Want to go to Mars? Great, now all you need to do is plan a mission. Figure out where to land, what to bring,...

Dinosaurs survived when CO2 was extremely high. Why can’t humans?

PALEONTOLOGY21/09/2022

How did plants and animals survive around 200 million years ago when the carbon dioxide concentration went up to 6,000 parts per million? Paul...

Study: Humans responsible for over 90% of world’s oil slicks

ENVIRONMENT16/06/2022

A team of U.S. and Chinese scientists mapping oil pollution across the Earth's oceans has found that more than 90% of chronic oil slicks...

Neanderthals of the North reveal tolerance of humans to changing environmental conditions

ENVIRONMENT30/04/2022

A multidisciplinary research team from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, the Leuphana University Lüneburg, the...