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A Rare Fox Was Spotted In Yosemite For The First Time In 100 Years
Yellow National Park has confirmed the first sighting in 100 years of a Sierra Nevada red fox.Yay!The rare fox was captured on two different occasions by a motion-sensitive camera planted in the far...
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Ocean temperatures are so high NOAA had to make new charts
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) had to redesign a graph of ocean heat content last week because data collected by the agency went off the charts.The graph's upper bound was...
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Scientists and the public completely disagree on several important matters
Scientists and their work have an important place in every major aspect of American life.Many hope that advances in science will improve people's lives and enhance the economy. They are anxious to...
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Newly unearthed writings show that Isaac Newton figured out how trees work...
Isaac Newton is best known for "discovering" gravity and co-inventing calculus. But newly unearthed writings from Newton's college days show he was equally adept at unlocking the mysteries of...
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Dozens of environmental activists are murdered every year
On January 26, the outcome of a Costa Rican murder trial sparked outrage among environmentalists around the world.Seven men, tried for the 2013 murder of 26-year-old Jairo Mora Sandoval, were acquitted...
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Here's how winter will change across the country by the end of the century
As another icy February kicks into full swing, residents of the chilly northern US might be wishing they'd settled in warmer climes.Sure, winter in the North may be a snowy, slushy affair now — but...
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These are the impacts of climate change we will never be able to fix
Around the world, the race is on to slash greenhouse gas emissions and halt global climate change before it causes devastating — and maybe permanent — consequences for the planet.In December, the...
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Tim Cook explains the smart business reason why Apple has its own solar...
Tim Cook spoke at Goldman Sachs' Internet and Technology conference on Tuesday where he announced Apple's plan to build a $850 million solar farm that will power its new campus in Cupertino.Cook...
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Discarded Russian submarines could cause a nuclear disaster in the Arctic
The Arctic could become a site of future turmoil, and not just because of the emerging geopolitical tensions and militarization in the region. Beyond concerns of a frozen conflict in the icy north,...
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This chart shows how long you can stay outside in extreme cold before getting...
This weekend, parts of the Northeast could experience some of the coldest temperatures the region has seen in the past 20 years. The National Weather Service predicts temperatures below freezing for...
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European and American air pollution is making the tropics drier
Air pollution pumped out by factories and power plants in Europe and North America has led to drier spells in the tropics, thousands of miles to the south. Scientists had long suspected this was the...
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Iceland is rising faster than any other land mass — here's why
Iceland is rising at a faster pace as global warming melts the island's ice caps, scientists say.The speed of this rise is among the fastest rates at which the crust of the planet is rising, "and may...
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São Paulo and the 20 million people who live there are literally running out...
Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world, measured by area or population, and it's home to one-eighth of the fresh water on the planet, including the Amazon, the mightiest river in the...
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NASA just took some of the best images of the Arctic we've ever seen
On February 11, 2013, the Landsat 8 satellite rocketed into space to extend a four-decade legacy of Earth observations. A few months after launch, we published a composite of images that spanned 9,000...
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We’ve totally underestimated how much plastic we are dumping into the oceans
For more than 40 years after the first reports of plastic pollution in the oceans, scientists struggled to put a precise value on the amount of plastic waste entering the marine system.Initial...
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Clues to answering humanity's most basic questions are locked in this...
DECEPTION ISLAND, Antarctica – Earth's past, present and future come together here on the northern peninsula of Antarctica, the wildest, most desolate and mysterious of its continents.Clues to...
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Duke Energy fined over $100 million for environmental violations
(Reuters) - Duke Energy Corp has agreed to pay a fine of about $102 million for environmental violations related to a power plant's coal ash spill into a North Carolina river last year and the...
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Incredible images of the biggest iceberg to break off the Antarctic shelf...
While large icebergs calve regularly from fast-flowing ice shelves in West Antarctica, the coast of cooler, drier East Antarctica tends to be less active. That made it a mild surprise when a...
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Here’s what burning fossil fuels is doing to our oceans
Burning fossil fuels doesn't only impact the atmosphere; it is also changing the world's oceans.About a quarter of the carbon dioxide emitted by humans ends up in the seas, which causes them to become...
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Water is eating away at Antarctica's ice and it may reshape Earth
CAPE LEGOUPIL, Antarctica (AP) — From the ground in this extreme northern part of Antarctica, spectacularly white and blinding ice seems to extend forever. What can't be seen is the battle raging...
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