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Humans have disturbed almost all of the Earth’s habitats and animal populations. A new study from Frontier Forest and Global Change reveals that only three percent of the Earth’s land remains untouched or “ecologically intact.” Rather than just rely on satellite imagery, Andrew Plumptre—lead author of the study—and his team studied superimposed maps of human […]
Nine years after a group of researchers from Yale put together the “Map of Life,” which provides a database that pins where known species live across the globe, they have now put together a map that attempts to locate areas where yet-to-be-discovered species may reside. The goal, according to the guy who spearheaded the project (Yale ecology and […]
A volcano in southwest Iceland came to life on Friday night when it erupted after being dormant for thousands of years. Per the Icelandic Meteorological Office, the eruption on Reykjanes Peninsula began around 8:45 p.m. local time. Lava spilled down both sides of the mountain, but it didn’t appear to be a threat to nearby towns because it […]
An Ohio zookeeper has been hospitalized after being attacked by a cheetah, the Columbus, Ohio CBS affiliate reports. The incident took place on Thursday when two staff members were walking a 4-year-old cheetah, Isabelle, on her daily exercise. At the same time, a keeper from the Heart of Africa region was also walking down the service […]
A devastating earthquake ravished the coast of Turkey and the Greek island of Samos on Saturday. Per CBS News, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake shook the Aegean Sea near the coast of Turkey. The natural disaster rumbled cities, collapsing buildings, and triggering a tsunami that flooded Western Turkey. Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency claims that the earthquake injured more than 700 people […]
Following the news earlier this year that giant Asian “murder hornets” had been spotted in the U.S., one has been captured in the state of Washington for the first time. The Washington State Department of Agriculture confirmed it had trapped one of the dangerous insects at Birch Bay in Whatcom County. The hornet was captured on July […]
An hours-long standoff in Ukraine centered on an armed man who had taken 13 hostages came to a close after President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly endorsed a Joaquin Phoenix-narrated movie. The individual in question, identified in a Reuters report as 44-year-old Maksym Kryvosh, took 13 people hostage on a bus in western Ukraine and said he […]
Conservationists and animal lovers were flabbergasted over the weekend thanks to one soft yellow turtle spotted strolling around eastern India. According to CNN, farmer Basudev Mahapatra found the turtle while working on Sunday in Odisha, India. Mahapatra later handed the turtle over to forest officials, who contacted conservation experts for assistance. According to experts, the turtle’s yellow […]
Health officials have confirmed the presence of a rare, deadly, brain-eating amoeba in Florida’s Hillsborough County, which includes Tampa and several other cities. On Friday, the Florida Department of Health announced that a person in the county had been infected with naegleria fowleri, a single-celled living amoeba that can cause a serious brain infection called […]
Recently it was reported that the Asian giant hornet, dubbed the “murder hornet,” was spotted in Blaine, Washington. People let out a loud collective “nope” in response to the news, but it turns out nature gets a lot wilder than hornets capable of killing humans. As the news swept across social media, a video of a […]
