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Mexico’s sundry landscapes have few parallels. Straddling the northern boundary of the Tropic of Cancer, the country boasts low-lying deserts and humid rainforests, scrubby chaparral and tangled mangroves, with long spines of the Sierra Madre stitching the country’s starkly different…
Changes threaten ecosystems as flowering falls out of sync with fruit-eating, seed-dispersing animals and pollinators Tropical flowers are blooming months earlier or later than they used to because of climate breakdown, with potentially “cascading impacts across ecosystems”, according to a…
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JUIZ DE FORA, Brazil (AP) — Families of those killed in the devastating floods in southeastern Brazil began burying the dead on Wednesday, as the death toll climbed to at least 40 in the state of Minas Gerais. All the victims found…
Penguins are dramatically shifting their breeding season as the Antarctic peninsula warms, a recent study finds. From 2012 to 2022, researchers used remote cameras to examine the timing of breeding for three penguin species across 37 colonies on the Antarctic…
In 2020, a research paper published in the journal Science found that 20% of soy exports and at least 17% of beef exports from Brazil’s Cerrado and Amazon biomes to the European Union had been tainted by illegal deforestation. At…
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NASA astronaut Mike Fincke helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship SHANNON after he, NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov landed in the…
Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Swift Home Spacecraft Science Boost News For Scientists After 21 years, the orbit of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has entered a phase of rapid decay. While NASA could have allowed the observatory to re-enter Earth’s…
Court fines for illegal dumping decreased over past year with only 0.2% of incidents resulting in court action Fly-tipping incidents across England have reached the highest level since current records began, with the majority of offences continuing to involve household…