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THOIRY, France (Reuters) — Poachers broke into a French zoo, shot dead a rare white rhinoceros and sawed off its horn in what is believed to be the first time in Europe that a rhino in captivity has been attacked and killed. The four-year-old male white rhino called Vince was found dead in his enclosure by his keeper at the Thoiry zoo and wildlife park about 50 km (30 miles) west of Paris on Tuesday […]
by Marlowe HOOD Agence France-Presse PARIS, France – There’s good and bad news for people, and polar bears, threatened by the Arctic’s vanishing sea ice, scientists said Monday. First the good news: summer ice cover is “virtually certain” to survive if average global warming does not rise more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial era levels, according to a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. “We estimate there is less […]
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) — Mexico’s arid desert area has revealed the well-preserved complete skeleton of a new marine reptile that is reportedly 93 million years old, revealing such details of tissue mass and scales previously unseen in other fossils. The reptile christened the Mauriciosaurus fernandezi was discovered in 2011 by former mayor Mauricio Fernandez in Vallecillo in northeastern Mexico, an area that was once a large ancient seaway. The fossilized remains of the ancient reptile reveal […]
A training institute in Surigao del Norte has received an-almost half-a-million-peso development grant for the upgrading of its facilities. The development grant amounting to P497,850 was provided by MASHAV, Israel’s agency for international development cooperation, to the Sogbohan Agri-Training Institute on Dinagat Islands. MASHAV’s main objective is to help MASHAV course graduates to develop their existing ideas to a level of sustainability and maturity on an economic basis. In SATI, the only agriculture training center in […]
by Marie A. Dumayac Eagle News Service Colorado DENVER, Colorado, USA – (Eagle News) — Denverites enjoyed a warm weather on February 2017, hitting high 60’s (19 degree C), mid-70’s (23 degree C), and even an 80 degree F (27 degree C). Denver also set the highest temperature ever recorded in four days of February (10th, 15th, 16th, 21st). On February 23rd, a day after a high of 57 degree F (14 degree C), and […]
CHENGDU CITY, SICHUAN PROVINCE, China (Reuters) — Female Giant Panda Bao Bao arrived at her new home in southwestern China’s Sichuan province late on Wednesday (February 22), after leaving the National Zoo in Washington D.C., United States. The panda experienced a 16-hour flight in the crate and was then carried into a van directly from Chengdu’s Shuangliu airport to the Dujiangyan Base of China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP), where she […]
by Kerry SHERIDAN Agence France Presse MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Entice them with a sweet reward and bumblebees can be trained to roll a ball into a goal, revealing unexpectedly complex learning abilities for an insect, researchers said Thursday. The findings in the US journal Science offer the first evidence that bees can learn a skill that is not directly related to their typical duties of foraging for food. Even more, bumblebees appeared to […]
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (Reuters) — When conservationists discovered the world’s newest crocodile species after years of sloshing through mangroves and swamps from Senegal to Uganda, the elation was tempered by the knowledge that it was on a path to extinction. Now, in its struggle to survive, the West African Slender-snouted Crocodile’s fate is tied to a zoo in the heart of Ivory Coast’s economic capital Abidjan, that itself faced an uncertain future not long ago. […]
by Nina Larson Agence France Presse GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — Invisible particles washed off products like synthetic clothing and car tires account for up to a third of the plastic polluting oceans, impacting eco-systems and human health, a top conservationist body warned Wednesday. Unlike the shocking images of country-sized garbage patches floating in the oceans, the microplastic particles that wash off textiles and roadways leave the waterways looking pristine. But […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Poachers are killing elephants for their ivory at an alarming rate in the central African nation of Gabon, leading to a loss of 80 percent of the population in the last decade. Some 25,000 elephants have been slaughtered in Minkebe National Park, an area that had been considered a sanctuary, said the report in the journal Current Biology. “Because Gabon is thought to hold the largest remaining population of forest elephants, […]
Once global warming was exclusively a naturally-occurring process. The Earth’s atmosphere is made up of gases, some of which absorb infrared radiation. This means they retain heat from the sun, forming a thermal layer around the planet. Without this so-called greenhouse effect, temperatures would be around -18 degrees Celsius, so there would be no — or little — life on Earth. But the warming process has been destabilized, as levels of key greenhouse gases — […]
From Cairo to Luxor, Egyptologists are working alongside physicists and engineers to try to solve the secrets of the pharaohs. Using non-invasive exploration techniques which won’t damage the monuments, teams of researchers began scanning Egypt’s pyramids in October 2015. They are focusing on the Bent and Red pyramids at Dahshur, together with Khufu – also known as the Great Pyramid – and Khafre, built on the Giza plateau 4,500 years ago. Using infrared thermography, researchers […]
