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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
Active Atlantic hurricane periods, like the one we are in now, are not necessarily a harbinger of more, rapidly intensifying hurricanes along the U.S. coast, according to new research performed at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
In an announcement that could prove to be extremely good news for elephants in the wild, the Chinese government has promised to end its domestic ivory market by the end of this year.
Every year, thousands of elephants are killed for their tusks by poachers. Between 2011 and 2014, more than 100,000 elephants were slaughtered. The African elephant population dropped 30 percent from 2007 to 2014. More elephants are being killed than are being born.
El cambio climático provocado por el hombre probablemente aumentó la severidad de las olas de calor que afectaron a la India, Paquistán, Europa, África Oriental, Asia Oriental y Australia en 2015 y ayudó a convertirlo en el año más caluroso registrado, según una nueva investigación publicada hoy en una Edición Especial del Boletín de la Sociedad Meteorológica Americana.
Pollution can take many forms--including noise. Excess noise in the environment from sources such as traffic can have negative effects on animals that rely on sound to communicate and get information about their surroundings. A new study from The Condor: Ornithological Applications shows that traffic noise makes birds less responsive to alarm calls that would otherwise alert them to dangers such as predators.
From the Arctic to the Mojave Desert, terrestrial and marine habitats are rapidly changing. These changes impact animals that are adapted to specific ecological niches, sometimes displacing them or reducing their numbers. From their privileged vantage point, satellites are particularly well-suited to observe habitat transformation and help scientists forecast impacts on the distribution, abundance and migration of animals.
Los científicos han sido testigos del nacimiento de nubes de hielo atmosférico, creando cristales de nubes de hielo en el laboratorio y luego tomando imágenes del proceso a través de un microscopio, documentando esencialmente los primeros pasos de la formación de nubes.
