Fossil snake traces: another world-first find on South Africa's Cape south coast
Oct 06, 2023 06:53 am UTC| Nature
Snakes are familiar, distinctive and often feared reptiles. And theyve been around for a long time: body fossils found in the UK, Portugal and the US stretch all the way back to the late Jurassic period, about 150...
Atomo Coffee Unveils Beanless Brew, Aiming to Combat Deforestation, Climate Change
Oct 05, 2023 09:44 am UTC| Economy Nature Business
A Seattle-based startup supported by Beyond Meat investors is set to revolutionize the coffee industry with its groundbreaking beanless coffee. Atomo Coffee aims to minimize the environmental impact of the popular beverage...
Jellyfish: our complex relationship with the oceans' anti-heroes
Oct 02, 2023 08:51 am UTC| Nature
Ding! The courier hands me an unassuming brown box with live animals plastered on the side. I begin carefully unboxing. The cardboard exterior gives way to a white polystyrene clamshell, cloistering a pearly sphere-shaped,...
How the age of mammals could end
Oct 02, 2023 08:16 am UTC| Nature
Throughout the past 500 million years, our planet has experienced a total of five mass extinctions. One of these the Permo-Triassic mass extinction event led to the demise of roughly 90% of Earths species. Most of...
Oct 02, 2023 06:23 am UTC| Nature
The long-term future looks bleak for Emperor penguins, but our new research shows some birds may be able to survive in certain conditions, depending on where they live, at least for the next few decades. Over the past...
Sep 29, 2023 01:57 am UTC| Nature
It was a rare bit of good news on climate. The International Energy Agency this week released its latest net zero roadmap, showing it was still just possible to hold global heating to 1.5℃. In the last two years, weve...
One in six UK species threatened with extinction – here's what we could lose (plus how to save them)
Sep 28, 2023 02:45 am UTC| Nature
The UK is considered one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. This is not surprising given its history of early industrialisation and agricultural intensification. These islands have lost species and...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects