Both farmers and wildlife restoration advocates agree that these efforts will not be easy given the various political, economic, social, legal and environmental dimensions. (From left) lynx, brown bear and wolf. Photos from iStock. Collage: Chaitanya Chandan / CSE Reintroduction of large carnivores into areas from which they were once extinct has gained ground in…
In situ XRD setup. (a) The sample is placed in an alumina tube. A thermocouple inside the tube is used to measure the temperature and a coil wrapped around the tube is used for heating. The holding cover is metal with front and back openings for the X-ray beam, and air passes through the tube…
Kapiti Beach residents protested outside the council meeting on Thursday. Picture: RNZ/Keith Green Kapiti Beach residents want their local council to produce a report on how to protect hundreds of homes from rising sea levels. They and the Kapiti Coastal District Council have been at loggerheads for more than a decade over efforts to map…
HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England — Endurance swimmer Joanne Fennelly dreads cold water and long distances, and swims in nature year-round. But he takes extra precautions in his backyard. The River Thames is one of the many waterways in the UK that have been polluted by sewage and agricultural pollution. “If it looks good, if it smells…
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Elephants use their trunks to eat, drink water, communicate, explore the environment, socialize, and make and use tools. The trunk, which consists of six muscle groups, is not only very strong—it can uproot a tree—but it can be used with great precision. Elephants use a number of techniques to grasp objects, including sucking, pinching with…
Listen to this article Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using artificial intelligence narration. Water gave the gift of existence to every living thing on earth. And yet, lately, it seems determined to destroy us. The widely anticipated Atlantic hurricane season is here, and early this morning the first storm, Alberto, made landfall…
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The destruction of the Hubble Space Telescope will probably always be like this: parts fail one by one and there is no way to replace them. Over the past few months, Hubble has repeatedly gone into safe mode because one of its three remaining gyroscopes kept giving faulty readings. But Hubble and the people who…
Since its launch in 2022, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed amazing things about the universe. The latest was when a team of researchers used it the WebThe Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) to observe Rho Ophiuchi, the closest star-forming nebula to Earth, about 400 light-years away. While at least five telescopes have studied the region…