What would you do with 1,000 butts if you had them? Ramisyllis multicaudata, a sea worm, is one of only two known creatures to find itself in this precarious predicament (shopping for trousers must be a nightmare)—and it isn’t telling. Given that a worm doesn’t “just happen” to have that many booties, there must be…
Snakes are cunning creatures. They’ve slithered their way into almost every corner of the globe in their 150 million-odd years on our planet. Saint Patrick, on the other hand, can’t take credit for eradicating our scaly companions from any of them. Ireland, like almost every other country without snakes, never had them to begin with.…
The earth is warming at an unprecedented rate in the last 2,000 years as a result of modern society’s continuous reliance on fossil fuels. and its consequences are already being felt as record droughts, wildfires, and floods wreak havoc on communities around the world. according to a groundbreaking United Nations assessment on the state of…
Bobby Monacella was sick of sending her two children to school on diesel-polluted buses. Inside those distinctive yellow buses, pollution levels can be up to ten times higher than outside. Monacella, who volunteers with the climate advocacy group Mothers out Front, said, “They’re sitting on the bus for almost an hour a day, and when…
More than 40 million people rely on the water reserves stored by Lake Powell and Lake Mead, two of the biggest reservoirs in the United States, both of which are located along the Colorado River. Water levels in each of these bodies have hit historic lows as the American West continues to suffer from severe…
Some sections of the globe are beginning to see more heavy rain than they had anticipated. Floods hit cities across the Northeast earlier this month, including one in New York City that completely flooded subway stations. It isn’t just the United States; huge flooding wreaked havoc in Germany just last week, and central China had…
Since the late 1800s, when modern sports and rivalries revitalized the ancient tradition, the summer Olympics have remained a quadrennial tradition. Since COVID-19 threw last year’s events off schedule, the world is preparing for another round of competition in Tokyo. Transporting players and supporters from around the world to cities hosting Olympic games has a…
According to experts, the scorching heatwave that ravaged the Pacific Northwest last month would have been “nearly impossible” without the effect of climate change. Even with it, it was virtually impossible.According to a recent study by World Weather Attribution, a climate research project that looks at the impact of climate change on specific weather occurrences,…
Jeremy Joslin, an emergency physician, was in charge of an ultramarathon in Cambodia’s wilderness a few years ago. Many of the participants wanted to cool off after the race, and they saw an attractive stream nearby. The cries began after a few minutes, according to Joslin, who is located at SUNY Upstate Medical University in…
According to a new study, the Trump administration’s move last autumn to delist grey wolves from endangered classification resulted in a 30 percent decline in Wisconsin’s wolf population. More than 300 wolves may have been killed this winter as a result of both authorized hunting and other factors such as illicit poaching, according to scientists.…