This Canadian town hosts over 1,000 polar bears every year ‘Polar Bear Town’ documents the famous annual migration. Michael d’Estries A character from the new Smithsonian Channel series. (Photo: ‘Polar …
Why Does Fall Foliage Turn So Red and Fiery? It Depends. By JOANNA KLEIN OCT. 25, 2016 Treetops near Song Mountain in Tully, N.Y., last week. Credit Lauren Long/The Syracuse …
Leaked map reveals chronic mercury epidemic in Peru People living upriver from gold-mining are the most contaminated, according to US-based scientists Fish from the River Madre de Dios in Peru. …
Drilling Into the Chicxulub Crater, Ground Zero of the Dinosaur Extinction By NICHOLAS ST. FLEUR NOV. 17, 2016 An artist’s impression of what the Chicxulub crater might have looked like …
Brazil’s scientists battle to escape 20-year funding freeze Cap at current spending levels could spell ‘end of science in Brazil’, researchers say. Brazil’s science budget has shrunk by more than …
Araeococcus nigropurpureus Leme & J. A. Siqueira, sp. nov. Frag. Atl. NE Brazil. 399-400. 2007 A presentation by BI
The olives helping Greece out of crisis It’s thought 200,000 Greeks have left the country since the economic crisis – but young entrepreneurs are looking to revitalise the economy. …
O livro Estratégia Nacional para a Conservação Ex Situ de Espécies Ameaçadas da Flora Brasileira já está disponível no portal do CNCFlora
Could These College Inventors Tackle the Global Pesticide Problem? Developed by a team of University of Virgnia students, AgroSpheres break down pesticide residues on crops hours after they are applied …
Why our hearts go out to Sherwood’s ancient oak Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire Perhaps it is a human-sized story – that after 400,000 days on Earth, the Major Oak is still full …