| Global Warming Reverses Long-Term Arctic Cooling Based on its long-term orbit, Earth should be heading into an ice age . But instead of continuing to cool--as it had been for at least the past 2,000 years--the Arctic has started to warm. And the reason is humans' impact on the composition of the atmosphere, new research suggests. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Can Local Governments Solve Global Warming? BOULDER, Colo. Here's what this affluent Rocky Mountain city of 100,000 does about a revenue shortfall in the darkest economic hour since the Great Depression: [More] rss.sciam.com |
An ugly truth: The future is dim for the world's homeliest fish Can't the blobfish ( Psychrolutes marcidus ) get some love? This ugly, gelatinous, inedible fish now risks extinction thanks to humans trawling marine murky depths for lobsters and crabs. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Summer Crickets and College An Albany lawyer was the first in his family to graduate from college, thanks to the guidance of a host family he met through the Fresh Air Fund. nytimes.com |
Horn of rarity: Asia's "unicorn" resurfaces after 10 years--then dies One of the world's rarest mammals, the antelopelike saola ( Pseudoryx nghetinhensis ), has been effectively invisible since 1999, the last time the elusive creature was observed by scientists. Well, one of them finally turned up again. Too bad it died soon after.A single male saola was captured late last month outside a remote village in the Laotian province of Bolikhamxay. Wildlife officials, accompanied by representatives from the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), rushed to the village but the animal had been weakened by its time in captivity and died soon after the team arrived, according to the IUCN. [More] Saola - International Union for Conservation of Nature - Asia - Unicorn - Laos rss.sciam.com |