Fiona the baby hippo, or how animals go viral
WASHINGTON – First, Bao Bao and Bei Bei the pandas made a splash at the National Zoo in Washington. Then, April the Giraffe wowed...
‘Missing link’ bolsters bold theory on dino evolution
PARIS — An oddball, vegetarian dinosaur with the silhouette of a flesh-ripping velociraptor, whose fossilized remains were unearthed in southern Chile 13 years ago,...
Planting bamboo
In celebration of World Bamboo Day 2017, the ALC Foundation is organizing a bamboo planting trail dubbed as Camp Kawayan under its Kawayanihan project.
The...
Coal plants might be even more toxic than we thought
By Eric Roston, Bloomberg
SCIENTISTS studying the aftermath of a massive coal-ash spill in North Carolina have discovered a byproduct of the fossil fuel that...
Dutch students grow their own biodegradable car
EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS -- What’s made of sugar, can carry four people, and travel at 50 miles (80 km) per hour? A biodegradable car, whose...
Small odds of reaching 2°C
PARIS — There is a 5% chance of limiting average global warming to under 2°C (3.6° Fahrenheit), the target set in the 2015 climate-rescue...
Other planets may never be as hospitable as Earth
PARIS — Scientists dealt a blow Monday to the quest for organisms inhabiting worlds besides Earth, saying our planet was unusual in its ability...
Earth’s 2017 resource ‘budget’ spent by next week — report
PARIS -- Humanity will have used up its allowance of planetary resources such as water, soil, and clean air for all of 2017 by...
Scientists dim sunlight, suck up carbon dioxide to cool planet
OSLO -- Scientists are sucking carbon dioxide from the air with giant fans and preparing to release chemicals from a balloon to dim the...
World’s northernmost coral reef in Japan bleached
TOKYO -- Bleaching has damaged the world’s northernmost coral reef in Japan, a researcher said Tuesday, the latest example of a global phenomenon scientists...
Study throw dog domestication theories to the wolves
PARIS -- From the tiny chihuahua to the massive Saint Bernard, domestic dogs today trace their roots to a single group of wolves that...
‘Sixth extinction’ of wildlife faster than feared — scientists
PARIS — The sixth mass extinction of life on Earth is unfolding more quickly than feared, scientists have warned.
More than 30% of animals with...