Tag: ENN

The Horn of Africa is facing drought and crop failures after four inadequate rainy seasons.

A team of coral researchers from the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Miami (UM) rescued 43 coral colonies after a sea wall collapsed at Star Island, near Miami Beach.

The largest identified single outbreak in U.S. history of West Nile virus disease, a potentially fatal mosquito-borne illness, occurred in Arizona last summer.

Climate change is a complicated phenomenon with a variety of both abrupt and gradual effects that scientists are working hard to uncover. 

The COVID-19 pandemic changed the way grocery stores do business, with online sales rising more than 50% from 2019 to 2020 in the United States.

A team of scientists led by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Appalachian State University used environmental DNA (eDNA) to document the breadth of high-alpine biodiversity present on Earth’s highest mountain, 29,032-foot Mt. Everest (8,849 m). 

When marine heatwaves and ocean acidity extreme events co-occur, it can have severe impacts on marine ecosystems.

Insects are the world’s smallest flying migrants, but they can maintain perfectly straight flight paths even in unfavorable wind conditions, according to a new study from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior (MPI-AB) and the University of Konstanz in Germany, and the University of Exeter in the UK.

From space, parts of the Amazon rainforest that have previously been logged or burned may look fully recovered with a healthy, lush, and green canopy. 

Near Earth’s North and South poles, wispy, iridescent clouds often shimmer high in the summertime sky around dusk and dawn.