Savvy squid, octopuses on rise despite warming oceans
MIAMI — The oceans are warming and coral reefs are dying, but octopuses, squids and cuttlefish appear to be thriving, with their numbers steadily...
Drugs and dung a bad mix for climate
PARIS — Scientists have discovered a potential threat to Earth’s climate lurking in a dark and smelly place: the dung of cattle treated with...
Poland begins logging primeval forest despite activist pleas
WARSAW, POLAND — Poland on Tuesday began a logging project aimed at protecting the Bialowieza forest, which includes some of Europe’s last primeval woodland,...
At sea, scientists drill into crater for dino clues
MEXICO -- Sharks swim around a platform of Mexico’s east coast as scientists drill deep into the ocean floor, extracting the remains of the...
Glass beads found in Australia point to huge asteroid hit
SYDNEY -- Australian scientists have found evidence of a huge asteroid they say slammed into Earth some 3.46 billion years ago -- making it...
Most Texas quakes likely caused by oil, gas activities: study
OIL AND gas activities may have caused nearly nine in 10 of the earthquakes Texas has experienced in the past 40 years, and the...
Botanists warn on threats to world’s plant kingdom
LONDON — Britain’s Royal Botanic Gardens warned Tuesday about the threats facing the world’s plant kingdom in the first global report of its kind...
Van Gogh recycled: Four million bottles used in Taiwan replica
A TAIWAN company has used four million colorful plastic bottles to produce a giant replica of Vincent van Gogh’s painting The Starry Night to...
Scientists find new earthlike planets, novelist imagines living there
IT’S a staple of science fiction: A city-size starship leaves our solar system, its passengers propagate on a trip that spans multiple generations and...
Tarsiers in Tagum
TAGUM CITY — Considered to be the world’s smallest primate, tarsiers are usually found in the province of Bohol in the Visayas region.
A tarsier...
Wave of dead sea creatures hits Chile’s beaches
SANTIAGO, CHILE — Heaps of dead whales, salmon and sardines blamed on the El Niño weather phenomenon have clogged Chile’s Pacific beaches in recent...
Construction is bustling at Florida’s first ‘sustainable town’
PUNTA GORDA, UNITED STATES -- With deep pockets and an environmentalist’s zeal, retired American football player Syd Kitson dreamed up a plan to build...