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In order to save human lives and study the effects of being buried in avalanches, researchers buried live pigs in snow while monitoring them as they died.  The research was conducted in order to better understand the effects...

Give people a little winter weather and they cry out that global climate change is a myth. Well, unfortunately, that is not the case.

According to studies conducted by paleontologists over the years into fossils and bones belonging to historic vertebrates such as amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals, a rough timeline as to when they evolved from sea...

A sting from an unidentified mosquito has proven to be quite deadly for livestock in Pekanbaru, Indonesia.   According to Askardiya Ribudana Patrianov, head of Riau Province’s Department of Animal Husbandry and Animal...

More than 70,000 square miles of habitat has been proposed for critically endangered leatherback turtles in U.S. waters off California, Oregon, and Washington. Endangered species protection finally advances in favor of leatherback...

Chemical structure of the antibiotic tetracycline–one of the four classes of antibiotics that sampled soil microbes showed increased resistance to in the 2009 Study...

When you’re a paleontologist seeking to solve an ancient mystery–in this case, the demise of Ice Age ‘megafauna’ like Woolly Mammoths and Giant Sloths–you sometimes have to get down and dirty...

Sea level may actually rise much faster than previously expected, a new scientific study shows. The study shows that by 2100, sea level could rise between 75 and 190 centimeters (about 2′6″ to 6′3″)....

News from South Korea is that scientists have succeeded in creating plastic without the use of fossil fuels. The scientists created sustainable polymers used in common plastics that could replace traditional polymers that...

Fishing and refuse disposal are to be banned in the 1st high seas Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the Southern Ocean, an area of the ocean that contains more species than the Galapagos Islands...

Overall, global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels increased 29% between 2000 and 2008 and 41% from 1990-2008, and the current concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is now at its highest in at least 2 million years, according...

Oceans regulate our climate. They play a key role in keeping the world’s “homeostasis” in tact. However, their ability to absorb carbon & keep the climate in balance is dwindling, a new report shows. In...

Oceans regulate our climate. They play a key role in keeping the world’s “homeostasis” in tact. However, their ability to absorb carbon & keep the climate in balance is dwindling, a new report shows. In...

Dung-sniffing dogs have confirmed that Javan rhinos are indeed still surviving in Vietnam. The WWF survey of Vietnam’s Javan rhino population is off to a promising start: Two dung piles and recent footprints!

Officials from Iowa and the United States Department of Agriculture have confirmed a pet cat in the United States has tested positive for the H1N1 virus.  This is the first time a feline has contracted the H1N1 virus in...