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<!– –> Gushing downpours finally arrived in California last month, when December rains brought some relief to a landscape parched after three years of severe drought.  But the rain came too late for thousands of Chinook salmon that spawned this summer and fall in the

Have you heard? Interpol, the world’s largest police organization, recently launched a Most Wanted List of environmental fugitives. Already, two suspected bad guys have been caught. The groundbreaking public appeal is the first time ever that Interpol is asking the public to assist in

A new study led by NASA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) shows that tropical forests may be absorbing far more human-emitted carbon dioxide than many scientists thought. The study estimates that tropical forests absorb 1.4 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide o

<!– –> Trawling the seabed doesn’t just remove some of the fishes living there; it also makes some of the survivors thinner and less healthy by forcing them to use more energy finding less nutritious food. That’s the conclusion of a new paper published in

It has been a challenge at times to get well-heeled and sometimes highly influential people to care about climate change. After all, having a great deal of money can serve to insulate someone from problems that afflict those less fortunate. Food prices going up, for example, not that

A trip to Antarctica might not be a dream vacation for everyone, but it’s on the list for many who are clearly willing to trek to there. While tourists are busy exploring the scenery and greeting the penguins who live there, scientists are raising concerns about how exposure to us cou

<!– –> Christmas came early this year for gray wolves thanks to an awesome ruling handed down by a federal judge that immediately reinstated federal protection for them in the Great Lakes region. The ruling affects wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, and, un

Many of us have seen the photos of plastic refuse in the ocean, the large islands of bags and waste that collect at tidal crossroads. Yet when scientists took a survey of the ocean earlier this year, they found a suspicious amount had disappeared. Was it just our good luck that pollut

<!– –> The world’s mussel population could be under threat as rising CO2 levels in atmosphere and oceans makes their shells weaker and more brittle shells – making them more vulnerable to stormy seas, and predation. In a new paper published today in the R

Over the past 166 years, the average temperature in Finland has risen by more than two degrees. During the observation period, the average increase was 0.14 degrees per decade, which is nearly twice as much as the global average. According to a recent University of Eastern Finland and