Category: Environment

13 March 2017   Under normal light, the South American polka dot tree frog (Hypsiboas punctatus) sports a muted palette of greens, yellows and reds. But dim the lights and switch on ultraviolet illumination,...

Published March 06, 2017   Thai surgeons on Monday performed an emergency operation to avoid breaking the “Bank” — the nickname of a sea turtle who had ingested 915 coins that were cracking its...

Posted: February 23, 2017     FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Apparently snowbirds aren’t the only visitors making their way to South Florida this winter. For the first time ever, a mako shark tagged off...

Trilobites By JOANNA KLEINFEB. 22, 2017 There is a mysterious hole in Lake Berryessa in California. It is not a supernatural whirlpool, a demon’s mouth, or a portal into hell or a fourth dimension....

FEB. 16, 2017, 1:35 P.M.     The rain has started to return in Northern California and will continue over the next few days, but officials aren’t as concerned about the upcoming weather so...

Feb. 14, 2017, at 3:19 p.m.   By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An extraordinary fossil unearthed in southwestern China shows a pregnant long-necked marine reptile that lived millions of years before the dinosaurs...

2/14/2017   OROVILLE, Calif. (CBSMiami/AP) — A Northern California lake that has brought local residents festivals and fireworks for half a century was feared to be bringing them disaster as the huge reservoir held...

By BENOÎT MORENNEFEB. 13, 2017 PARIS — An avalanche in the French Alps killed four snowboarders, including an instructor, on Monday morning. The four snowboarders — a 48-year-old man, his son, 15, and son-in-law,...

Published February 11, 2017 Associated Press WELLINGTON, New Zealand –  A new pod of 240 whales swam aground at a remote New Zealand beach on Saturday just hours after weary volunteers managed to refloat...

By Anna Fifield and Yuki Oda February 8 at 2:08 AM   TOKYO — The utility company that operated the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan — the one that went into triple meltdown...

February 6, 2017 11:31 AM ET Afghan officials say more than 100 people died in avalanches over the weekend, after nearly 10 feet of snow buried some parts of the country around Kabul and...

January 23, 20175:47 PM ET Six million years ago, giant otters weighing more than 100 pounds lived among birds and water lilies in the wooded wetlands of China’s Yunnan province. That’s according to new...

By Jonathan AmosBBC Science Correspondent 1/19/2017 The crack that looks set to spawn a giant iceberg in the Antarctic has continued to spread. The rift in the Larsen C Ice Shelf has grown a...

By CORAL DAVENPORTJAN. 18, 2017 WASHINGTON — Scott Pruitt, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, went on the offensive in his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, criticizing federal rules...

By Emanuella Grinberg, CNN updated 7:22 PM EST, Sun November 30, 2014 (CNN) — Time has effectively stood still in the Ukranian city of Pripyat, which was evacuated in the aftermath of the 1986...

An investigation has been launched after France’s state-owned EDF power company said unidentified drones had flown over seven of its nuclear plants. The first unmanned aircraft was spotted on 5 October and there had...