| Critically endangered Angolan antelope gets a second chance Travel to the African nation of Angola and you'll see representations of the giant sable antelope ( Hippotragus niger variani ) everywhere you turn: on the country's currency, on stamps, and on company logos. But unless you look really hard, you probably won't find any actual giant sable antelopes. Fewer than 100 of the iconic animals are believed to exist following the devastation of Angola's bloody 27-year civil war. Now a new project hopes to reverse that and create some hope for this critically endangered species. [More] rss.sciam.com |
John Rennie's 7 Answers to Climate Contrarian Nonsense [More] rss.sciam.com |
Fracking to Free Natural Gas? That's the sound of fracking --pumping a mix of water, sand and chemicals a mile or more into the Earth to shatter shale deposits and release the natural gas within. From the Barnett shale in Texas to the "supergiant" Marcellus shale that stretches from West Virginia to New York State, so much natural gas has been found that the U.S. may have enough to burn for 100 years or more. And burning natural gas releases 43 percent less CO2 than burning coal. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Corrections Feb 18 article about retirees who volunteer to work in parks, campgrounds and wildlife sanctuaries misstated effect budget cuts in California have had on parks there query.nytimes.com |
Asian coral die-off could be worst ever; Is climate change to blame? A massive coral bleaching event in Southeast Asian reefs in the Indian and Pacific oceans is the worst coral die-off since 1998 , and possibly the worst science has ever observed, says Andrew Baird of the ARC Center of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University. [More] rss.sciam.com |