Category: 9. Environment

People are flocking to nature’s doorstep, and into wildfire territory.

Homes constructed where human development meets undeveloped wildland are particularly vulnerable to wildfires and other natural hazards (SN: 11/9/23)….

Pooping whales changed the course of Asha de Vos’ career.

The Sri Lankan marine biologist was aboard a research vessel near her home island in 2003 when she spotted six blue whales congregating. A bright red plume of whale waste…

An experiment to grow new forests in central Mexico offers hope that the crucial winter habitat for millions of migrating monarch butterflies could survive into the next century.

When scientists decided to plant hundreds of baby…

Archaeologists have found traces of a climate disaster 1500-years-ago that might have inspired the legend of Ragnarök from Norse mythology.

Ragnarök is a series of events and natural disasters that culminates in the submersion of Midgard and the…

A recent study published in GeoJournal proposes that Seahenge was built to conduct rituals aimed at prolonging the summer during the extreme climatic changes of the 3rd millennium BC.

Seahenge, also known as Holme I, is a prehistoric timber circle…

Archaeologists have found that Pleistocene hunter-gatherers settled in Cyprus thousands of years earlier than previously thought.

An analysis of the oldest archaeological sites on the island suggests that the first human occupation occurred…

Researchers from the Life on the Edge project, a collaboration between the University of Bradford and the University of Split, has revealed a lost submerged landscape off the coast of Croatia using underwater scans.

Using state-of-the-art…

A study of the Quibas site in Murcia, Spain, has revealed new data to suggest that one million years ago there was a succession of climatic changes in Europe.

The Quibas site, located in Sierra de Quibas, was discovered in 1994 after a group of…

A study of the submerged site of Habonim North indicates that Neolithic coastal settlements were resilient in the face of climate change.

Habonim North is located 200 metres south of Tel Nami in Israel’s Carmel Coast. It was first identified…