Cal Fire said 20 structures were confirmed destroyed by the Park Fire, lowering an earlier estimate of 134. A fire raging out of control in northern California has rapidly become among the biggest ever in the western US state, authorities said Saturday. The so-called Park Fire burned more than 350,000 acres (142,000 hectares) as of … Read more
The slender-horned rhim gazelles, which are native to North Africa, have become an endangered species. Cocooned in white bags and nestled in the arms of volunteers, eight young rhim gazelles—an endangered species native to North Africa—have been transferred to an uninhabited Libyan island. Environmentalist hope their new home on Farwa island, near Tunisia, will be … Read more
Fireworms are native to the Mediterranean, but they used to be fewer in number and only spotted off Sicily in summer. The fish in Alfonso Barone’s net are hauled aboard off Sicily half- eaten, ravaged by bearded fireworms, a voracious predator flourishing in the increasingly warm Mediterranean sea. The centipede-like creatures, around 15 to 30 … Read more
Lisa Hillier of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife with a broadnose sevengill shark. Credit: Jessica Schulte Oregon State University researchers have made the first scientific confirmation in Puget Sound of two distinct shark species, one of them critically endangered. The presence of the broadnose sevengill shark and endangered soupfin shark in the sound, … Read more
An elephant ambles through the savannas of Tarangire National Park, one of AP’s anchor sites currently managed Tanzanian government. Credit: Sean Denny There’s an experiment going on in conservation in Africa. With biodiversity imperiled, and nations facing financial and political crises, some governments are transferring the management of protected areas to private, non-governmental organizations (NGOs). … Read more
CABBI Postdoctoral Researcher Maolin Li (seated) and Conversion Theme Leader Huimin Zhao work in their lab at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. They led a research team that used a photoenzymatic process to precisely mix fluorine, an important additive, into widely used chemicals called olefins. This … Read more
Fueled by a crushing heat wave, the so-called Park Fire — the most intense wildfire to hit the state this summer — has rapidly devoured nearly 240,000 acres (97,000 hectares). A huge, fast-moving and rapidly growing wildfire in northern California has forced more than 4,000 people to evacuate as firefighters battle gusty winds and perilously … Read more
Long and winding road: The Juice space probe taking the long way to Jupiter and its moons. A spacecraft launched last year will slingshot back around Earth and the moon next month in a high-stakes, world-first maneuver as it pinballs its way through the solar system to Jupiter. The European Space Agency’s Juice probe blasted … Read more
The coast guard has warned that if the entire cargo leaked it would be an ‘environmental catastrophe’ and the worst oil spill in the Philippine history. Some of the 1.4 million liters of industrial fuel oil inside a sunken Philippine tanker has started to leak into Manila Bay, the coast guard said Saturday, as they … Read more
This week, we reported on new epigenetic findings in memory formation as well as a dramatic spike in micromobility-related head injuries, so there’s a whole lot of head-related science on the front burner these days. There were new findings regarding an increasingly terrifying and awesome apex predator and the future of coffee is getting a … Read more
