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Earth is a planet of environmental extremes, ranging from freezing cold to scorching heat. With only a few special cases, humans live mainly in temperate regions, but a wide-ranging array of other creatures flourish in the inhospitable.
According to a recent study released in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, power outages have risen by more than 60% since 2015, even as climate change has exacerbated heat waves. The authors calculated that a combination outage and heatwave would subject at least two-thirds of people of three major U.S. cities to heat exhaustion or heat stroke using computer models. (Photo : Pixabay) Even if each of the cities in the sample has dedicated public cooling centers for people who need relief from the sun, the authors discovered that such centers will only serve around 2% of the popul...
Close Male songbirds normally discover their tunes from grown-up mentors. But when striving crooners lack adequate role models, they strike all the bad notes-and have limited success luring mates. Ecologist Ross Crates, for five years, has traced the singing potential and breeding achievement of seriously endangered regent honeyeaters. These distinct yellow and black birds were initially widespread in Australia, but the loss of habitat since the 1950s has reduced their population to just around 400 or 300 wild birds presently. (Photo : Pixabay) Honey-Eaters Now they are scarcely distributed a...
Feb 27, 2021 09:51 AM EST KAPA'A, HAWAII - the Laysan albatross retreating each fall to the Refuge at Midway Atoll National Wildlife, she could be any of a million, a team of three small islands created from coral reefs in North Pacific. One thousand miles north of Honolulu, marks of gorgeous seabirds sprinkle the islands' uncovered fields, soda-size can egg, sitting each atop a single. (Photo : Pixabay) The Oldest Wild Bird Known in History Both females and males sport the exact chocolate-brown wings and charcoal-smudged, which can stretch six and a half feet. But standing out is one bird...