A new study has found that heavy rainstorms will increase significantly by the end of the century. The study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, is the first of its kind to focus on the heaviest rain and snowstorms. It adds to previous studies which have already confirmed that extreme precipitation [...]

Saint-Aignan’s Beauval zoo has plans to recycle panda poop (and other animal feces), and turn it into gas and electricity, according to Agence France-Presse. The AFP states: The zoo announced on Friday it would build a facility that would process the dung of the two pandas and of other animals, as well as plant [...]

We reported earlier this year that the Andes is melting at a record rate: A new study, reported by BBC, the glaciers in the tropical Andes have shrunk by 30-50% since the 1970s. The study, published in the academic journal The Cryosphere, blamed the melting glaciers on the temperature rise—specifically, the rise of 0.7C from 1950 [...]

If you’ve ever had to work crazy hours (or simply work with dedication) or study for an exam, then you know exactly what “brain fatigue” feels like. It’s that distracted and forgetful feeling you get when you’ve overwhelmed or just beat. Fortunately, a recent study from Scotland has found that [...]

Skeptical Science has published a review and summer of a recent climate study by Balmaseda, Trenberth, and Källén (2013) that suggests that global warming has accelerated. “Recently there have been some studies and comments by a few climate scientists that based on the slowed global surface warming over the past decade, estimates of the Earth’s overall equilibrium climate sensitivity (the total [...]

The past two years have brought forth droughts that have had a devastating toll on our environment, and if forecasts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are to be believed, 2013 will be no better, if not worse. “The annual spring outlook from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicted [...]

A remote section of the Amazon jungle in Peru has been contaminated by oil fields operated by Argentina-based oil company Pluspetrol, according to the Peruvian government, who in turn, has has declared an environmental state of emergency by Peru’s Environment Ministry. The oil fields are the most productive ones in the [...]

A new nationwide survey released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found that more than half of America’s waterways are in bad shape. The EPA, which sampled 2,000 locales in 2008 and 2009, found that the country’s rivers and streams are in poor biological health and as a result, are [...]

A new study printed in the European Respiratory Journal claims that 14 percent of chronic childhood asthma is caused by exposure to traffic pollution. The study, conducted in 10 European cities, challenges the accepted belief that traffic pollution merely triggers pre-existing asthma symptoms. Science Daily shares: The researchers used a [...]

At the meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), conservation organizations warned illegal ivory trade is responsible for the decline of the endangered African elephant population. “Globally, illegal ivory trade activity has more than doubled since 2007, and is now over three times larger than it was [...]