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The Most Awe-Inspiring Photos of the Week from National Geographic #5
To help capture the beauty of our planet and its wildlife, we’ve collected the most awe-inspiring photos that National Geographic has shared on Instagram this week. Please follow the photographers and...
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A Record Number of Sea Lion Pups Starve as Humans Continue Overfishing
Starving California sea lion pups are washing up on the state’s beaches in unprecedented numbers this year, overwhelming marine mammal rescue centers and alarming scientists. A record 2,250 sea lions...
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Hundreds of California Native Tule Elk Die of Thirst Behind Enclosure as...
Hundreds of native tule elk confined behind fences at the Point Reyes National Seashore near San Francisco have died of thirst since 2012, unable to leave their enclosures to find water after their...
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How Old Will You Be When These Animals Go Extinct?
It’s estimated that between hundreds to thousands of species go extinct every year, according to stats from the WWF. In fact, some projections put the number of annual extinctions at 100,000 species...
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Without birds, tropical forests won’t bounce back from deforestation
Among its many other claims to fame, the Amazon rainforest contains more than 1,500 bird species. Around a quarter of them are found nowhere else on Earth. Many of these birds have evolved to fill a...
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Climate change is affecting all life on Earth – and that’s not good news for...
More than a dozen authors from different universities and nongovernmental organizations around the world have concluded, based on an analysis of hundreds of studies, that almost every aspect of life on...
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How microplastics make their way up the ocean food chain into fish
Up to 236,000 tonnes of microplastics – tiny pieces of broken-down plastic smaller than your little fingernail – enter our oceans each year. This has researchers around the world worried, as wildlife...
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Ringling Bros. Circus shutdown is a distraction from the real issue: Eating...
The “Greatest Show On Earth,” the 146-year-old Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, announced in January that it will finally close in May. The circus was simply not sufficiently spectacular...
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Robot bees vs real bees – why tiny drones can’t compete with the real thing
The latest service to be revolutionised by drones might not be package delivery or internet connections but the far more valuable service of pollination. Researchers in Japan have been exploring the...
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No animal required, but would people eat artificial meat?
Futurists tell us that we will be eating in vitro meat (IVM) – meat grown in a laboratory rather than on a farm – within five to ten years. IVM was first investigated in the early years of this century...
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