While sustainability reporting is a widespread practice in the private sector, new research shows that the same cannot be said for Ontario municipalities.
1 in 5 Colorado Bumblebees are Endangered, New Report Says
On a cliffside at Mesa Verde National Park in southern Colorado, a fuzzy bee was industriously gnawing at the red sandstone.
Tiny ant species disrupts lion’s hunting behavior
Data gathered through years of observation reveal an innocuous-seeming ant is disrupting an ecosystem in East Africa, illustrating the complex web of interactions among ants, trees, lions, zebras and buffaloes.
World’s first successful embryo transfer in rhinos paves the way for saving the northern white rhinos from extinction
Scientists have succeeded in achieving the world's first pregnancy of a rhinoceros after an embryo transfer. The southern white rhino embryo was produced in vitro from collected egg cells and sperm and transferred into a southern white rhino surrogate mother at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya on September 24,...
Useful Plant Species Largely Grow on Unprotected Lands, Study Finds
Humans make use of tens of thousands of different kinds of plants, many rare and endangered.
Offshore Wind Farms are Vulnerable to Cyberattacks, New Concordia Study Shows
The hurrying pace of societal electrification is encouraging from a climate perspective.
Paper Provides a Clearer Picture of Severe Hydro Hazards
Over the last two decades an estimated three billion people have been affected by water-related natural disasters such as droughts and floods.
Researchers find new multiphoton effect within quantum interference of light
An international team of researchers has disproved a previously held assumption about the impact of multiphoton components in interference effects of thermal fields (e.g. sunlight) and parametric single photons (generated in non-linear crystals).
Marine heat waves trigger shift in hatch dates and early growth of Pacific cod
Marine heat waves appear to trigger earlier reproduction, high mortality in early life stages and fewer surviving juvenile Pacific cod in the Gulf of Alaska, a new study shows. These changes in the hatch cycle and early growth patterns persisted in years following the marine heat waves, which could have...
Injectable water filtration system could improve access to clean drinking water around the world
A new portable filtration system collects dirty water with a syringe and injects it into a hydrogel filter that weeds out nearly all tiny particles.