Photo by crustmania via Wikimedia Commons (CC by 2.0) Article by Tik Root and Harry Stevens, Washington Post On Tuesday, more than 100 countries signed on to an ambitious plan to halt deforestation by 2030 and pledged billions of dollars to the effort. Although world leaders lauded...
Photo by Jürgen Jester via Pixabay Article via WSKG The amount of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere reached 419 parts per million in May, its highest level in more than four million years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced on Monday. After dipping last year because of...
Photo via European Space Agency Article by Nicoletta Lanese, Live Science Scientists on the International Space Station spotted a bright-blue lightning bolt shooting upward from thunderclouds. Blue jets can be difficult to spot from the ground, since the electrical discharges erupt from the tops of thunderclouds. But...
Photo: A Child Explores "Recycling Labyrinth" Art Installation at U.N. Office Geneva, via Global Citizen Article by Helen Lock, Global Citizen You never know what is going to be the spark for the next budding activist to take a stand. In the case of 9-year-old Lizzie A. (her...
Photo courtesy of Nasa/JPL-Caltech/Reuters Article originally from Reuters via Yahoo! News An international team of scientists say they've found potential signs of life on the planet Venus. There's only one planet closer to the sun than Venus and its surface temperatures reach almost 900 degrees Fahrenheit. But scientists said on...
Photo via Intelligent Living Article by Andrea D. Steffen, Intelligent Living A couple of people can literally make a whole forest of a difference! That’s what renowned Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado and his wife Lélia Deluiz Wanick Salgado have proven. With the help of many, they planted 2.7...
Photo courtesy of Department of Defense via The New York Times Article by Ed Mazza, HuffPost via Yahoo! News The Pentagon’s secretive UFO unit is going to make some of its findings public, The New York Times reported. And one consultant to the agency has briefed Defense Department officials...
Photo from Yahoo! News Article by Morgan McFall-Johnsen, Business Insider via Yahoo! News An underground vat of liquid xenon in Italy may have just detected a new particle, born in the heart of the sun. If that's indeed what happened, it could upend laws of physics that have held...
Photo of Tel Arad fortress from Wikipedia, public domain Article by Becky Ferreira, VICE A sanctuary called the “Holy of Holies” offers “the earliest evidence for the use of cannabis in the Ancient Near East.” Who was the Kingdom of Judah’s pot dealer? The Kingdom of Judah, an...
Photo by Circe Denyer from PublicDomainPictures.net, via Creative Commons (CC0) Article by Nathan Rott, NPR The forests of today will not be the forests of tomorrow. Rising temperatures, deforestation, development and climate-induced disasters are transforming the very makeup of Earth's forests, new research published in the journal Science finds. Older,...