Across the animal kingdom, males hoot and holler to attract females and ward off competing suitors. Now, a new study finds that male howler monkeys with deeper calls have smaller testicles – and vice versa, according to researchers from universities of Utah, Cambridge and Vienna and other institutions. … [Read more...]
Study Shows Your Sunscreen Is Killing Coral Reefs in the U.S.
Coral reefs cannot seem to catch a break this year. Between a particularly strong El Niño, ocean acidification and increasing ocean temperatures, links between overfishing and reef collapses, and the declaration of a massive coral bleaching event expected to affect 95 percent of U.S. coral reefs by the end of the year, the current state of the global environment has been … [Read more...]
Beer Could Save the Honeybees
The fight to save honeybees has gotten boosts recently from the USDA, the White House, and researchers who are still working to determine why managed honeybees continue to die off. Now, bees have one more thing on their side: beer. … [Read more...]
World’s Economy Could Have a Massive Impact on Climate Change
The warmer it gets, the less productive a country’s economy will likely be — those are the results of a new economic and science study published yesterday in Nature. The study, conducted by researchers at Stanford and UC Berkeley, examined fifty years of historical data to see if there was a relationship between temperature and economic performance. … [Read more...]
Sword Attacker at Swedish School Kills Teacher, Injures 2 Students
A teacher was killed and two students were seriously injured when a masked man carrying a sword attacked a school in southwestern Sweden, officials said Thursday. Swedish officials told the Associated Press that the attacker was in serious condition after being shot by police. … [Read more...]
Thousands Flee Myanmar to Escape Repression
Thousands of men, women and children from a minority group in Myanmar called the Rohingya are desperate enough to risk death and slavery to escape the country as refugees in search of a better life. … [Read more...]
South African Prison Releases Oscar Pistorius
Oscar Pistorius has been released from a South African prison after serving one day shy of a year in prison for killing his girlfriend and was staying at his uncle's house, ABC News has confirmed. … [Read more...]
$20 Million Could Turn Carbon Pollution Into a Usable Product
Carbon pollution from power plants is a big problem — when power plants burn fossil fuels, they increase the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, in turn driving global climate change. … [Read more...]