
Australian Geographic - 1 day 23 hours ago
The culturally rich and extraordinarily biodiverse Adelaide International Bird Sanctuary National Park Winaityinaityi Pangkara is one of the country's most remarkable birdwatching locations. The post Southern jewel appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Retraction Watch - 1 day 23 hours ago
Last year, we wrote about a Walsh Medical Media journal that refused to withdraw an author's paper unless he paid a fee even though he didn't write or submit the article. For one reader, some details of that story were familiar. Laertis Ikonomou, an associate professor at the University of Buffalo in New York, … Continue reading Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper...

Australian Geographic - 1 day 23 hours ago
Court is in session, and the insects are out for blood. The defendant? The archerfish. The crime? Flouting the unspoken laws of nature, where fish hunt in water, and everything else hunts well, everywhere else. The post Archerfish just flout the rules' appeared first on Australian Geographic .

Newser - 2 days 1 hour ago
NASA issued a welcomed all-clear Thursday, saying there's now zero chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 will crash into the moon in 2032. The space agency had been predicting a 4.3% chance of a direct hit. But observations by the Webb Space Telescope in February helped scientists refine the asteroid's...

Los Angeles Times - 2 days 1 hour ago
An offering memorandum described the destroyed mobile home park as a "blank canvas for redevelopment"; however, city officials reiterated they intend to let fire survivors return and rebuild.

The Conversation - 2 days 1 hour ago
Key sources of drinking water have been targets in past conflicts. And Iranian strikes have already hit close to some.

Mother Jones - 2 days 8 hours ago
Children were starting to stream out of Peres Elementary School in Richmond, California, as activist Katt Ramos pointed towards a plume of smoke in the distance. Ramos is an activist who, at the time, helped to lead the Richmond chapter of Communities for a Better Environment. She was standing outside of the school in the […]...

GeekSpin - 2 days 8 hours ago
Antarctica's frozen frontier is retreating, and the scale is far greater than many realize. Over the last several years, thousands of square miles of grounded ice have vanished from the continent's outer edges, subtly redrawing the map of the southernmost continent. Scientists say this isn't just a distant polar problem; it's a shift that could […] Read the original article here: Antarctica has lost 5000 square miles of critical ice...