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The Conservancy of Southwest Florida has filed a petition with Secretary Salazar of the United States Department of the Interior to provide additional legal protection for the endangered Florida panther to help prevent its extinction.Only an estimated 90 to 100 Florida panthers remain today, almost all within South>
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System "concentrated" solar thermal plant in the Mojave Desert is by any measure an unmitigated disaster.The party that is now claiming they are rescuing the Ivanpah they mandated to exist was scheduled to be closed this year - because its low costs were always a pipe dream and>
A new study finds that even in urban environments, trees make a terrific contribution to offsetting carbon dioxide emissions in cities, while grass is less valuable.Soil respiration of grass exceeds photosynthesis so grassy areas release more carbon dioxide than they bind, making them a source of CO2 rather than>
Three new collembolan species have been discovered in the Maestrazgo caves in Teruel, Spain. Their description has been published in the Zootaxa journal and belong to one of the most ancient animal species on the planet.
The Maestrazgo caves in Teruel are located in a region of the Iberian Range. It is an isolated>
When and where did the ancient Iapetus Ocean suture (the most fundamental Appalachian structure) form? Is part of New England made up of ancient African-derived rocks? What is the Moretown terrane?
Mountain-building events, called "orogenies," in the northern U.S. Appalachia record the closure of the Iapetus>
The potential contribution to sea level rise from a collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) have been greatly overestimated, according to a new study in Science. These scientists estimate global sea level would rise 3.3 metres, not five or six, which were some previous estimates.>
