Now, for the first time, scientists are inviting citizens to help in updating information about European river barriers with a newly-developed smartphone app. Credit: Katarzyna Susaka SSIFI Based on their first observations, they estimated an average of one barrier per kilometre of river. Clearly, the picture of river fragmentation in Europe is […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Less than eight months after Hurricane Harvey pelted the Texas Gulf Coast with torrential rainfall, drought has returned to Texas and other parts of the West, Southwest and Southeast, rekindling old worries for residents who dealt with earlier waves of dry spells and once again forcing […]
Wild insects are the most important and vulnerable pollinators. Pollinators such as bumblebees and solitary bees have become endangered. Szefei / www.shutterstock.com Pollinating insects like bees, butterflies and flies have had a rough time of late. A broad library of evidence suggests there has been a widespread decline in their abundance and diversity […]
The red coral in the middle of this image is a staghorn coral, or A. millepora. Credit: Mikhail Matz Using genetic samples and computer simulations, evolutionary biologists have made a glass-half-full forecast: Corals in the Great Barrier Reef have enough genetic variation to adapt to and survive rising ocean temperatures for […]
Mount Io, which has erupted for the first time since 1768, may become more active, volcanologist Makoto Saito warns A volcano in southern Japan erupted for the first time in 250 years on Thursday, spewing steam and ash hundreds of metres into the air, as authorities warned locals not to […]
The ‘shark’ will soon gobble up La Niña’s cool surface waters. What might this mean for the climate later this year? A cross section of the equatorial Pacific Ocean showing how water temperature departed from average during the five-day period centered on 3 April 2018. The vertical axis shows depth below the […]
The landscape of the long-term monitoring site and the warming and precipitation manipulation experiment at the Haibei National Field Research Station of Alpine Grassland Ecosystem. Credit: HE Jinsheng The Tibetan Plateau has experienced more rapid climate warming than the global average, coupled with greater inter-annual variation in precipitation over the […]
Demonstrators use a mock oil pipeline to block the entrance to the Canadian Embassy in central London as they protest against the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion Support in Canada for a pipeline expansion to move oil to the Pacific coast for shipping to new markets overseas is rising, polling […]
Smog hangs over Los Angeles, which a study found was the US city with the worst ozone pollution California has the most polluted cities in the United States, a report issued on Wednesday said, as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to force the state to weaken its vehicle emissions standards. […]
Engineers and aid groups want to rethink Puerto Rico’s grid from the ground up—and they may have to. JOSE JIMENEZ TIRADO/GETTY IMAGES AND THEN THE lights went out. Again. The loss of electrical power in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands after Hurricane Maria churned across the islands in September 2017 was […]