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Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope detected a population of 64 brown dwarf candidates with masses ranging from 50 to 84 Jupiter masses in…
“Demographic composition has changed significantly in recent years,” Li Junhua, the U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, said in a news release. The report predicts…
Ocean warming threatens to reduce golden tiger shark populationsShutterstock/Podlonaya Elena The world's egg-laying shark populations could be hit hard by the end of the century as…
Mammoth (Mammutus primigenius) is isolated Wrangel Island Mammoths were discovered off the coast of Siberia approximately 10,000 years ago and survived for over 200 generations before…
Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is often held up as an example where overexploitation of limited resources led to catastrophic population declines. A key element of this…
Peak groundwater pumping could impact agriculture around the world Peter Bennett / Alamy Groundwater withdrawal is expected to peak globally within the next 30 years as…
In Los Angeles, efforts to combat mosquitoes have taken a new turn: introducing more mosquitoes into the environment. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Mosquito Control District…
The federal government announced this week that grizzly bears will be reintroduced to Washington state’s North Cascade Mountains. The decision follows many years of intense and…
Gray wolves face long wait amid public outrage over rewilding of beavers and Steller’s sea eagles Jasper Dost/Minden Pictures/Alamy Chase the Shadow WolfDerek Gow (Chelsea Green)…
SAN FRANCISCO — The number of western monarch butterflies wintering in California declined by 30% last year, likely due to the high humidity, researchers announced Tuesday.…
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed a plan to shoot hundreds of thousands of barred owls in West Coast forests over the next 30…
