National Tree Day: Is nature disappearing from our vocabulary?
Today is National Tree Day, but according to a study, words to describe nature (such as leaf or branch) are ...
NDVI Satellite Imagery to Monitor Crop Development: A Key Tool Against Climate Challenges
Agriculture is one of the industries most exposed to the effects of climate change. Farmers are having a tougher time ...
More and more often animals fall ill with chronic diseases (ours)
Once they were infections, today they are diabetes, cancer, obesity, cardiovascular problems: animal ailments resemble ours. How come? Chronic diseases ...
We have extracted the oldest RNA ever from a mammoth
We once thought that only the hard parts of an animal fossilized, and that it was therefore impossible to recover ...
The lion without a paw hunts like a leopard
Perhaps you will remember – and if you don’t remember, you can refresh your memory here – that about a ...
Was the Earth once purple? Maybe yes
Earth is “the blue planet”, or “the blue dot” if you prefer a definition that dates back to 1990, when ...
Oyster parasitic worms have been the same for 500 million years
A group of scientists from Harvard University recently found themselves faced with a fascinating paleontological puzzle. Analyzing the fossil remains ...
Fossil fuel infrastructure threatens the health of 2 billion people
The health of a quarter of people living on Earth is put at risk by the proximity of fossil fuel ...
Can you speak cat language? How to interpret body language and vocalizations
The stereotype about pets is that dogs are excellent communicators while cats are more reserved, mysterious and impossible to understand. ...