Sci/Environment

As the wild bee population declines, the importance of pollination becomes evident, threatening to disrupt crop production and the food economy. The first-ever study to map U.S. wild bees suggests they are disappearing in the […]

Harvard scientists say they are on the brink of resurrecting the woolly mammoth which became extinct 4,000 years ago. They say the ancient beast will be recreated using genetic engineering where the ice age mammal’s […]

According to a new study by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, TSA airport body scanners cause significant damage to human DNA, potentially leading to illnesses such as cancer.  The study, conducted by Bojan S. Alexandrov, […]

Scientists have discovered a new continent hidden in plain view in the Pacific Ocean right next to New Zealand. Zealandia, as it is formally called, is a continent with a 5 million square kilometre landmass […]

Scientists have discovered a massive pool of molten carbon stretching 1.8million square kilometres under the Western United States. The massive reservoir, 350km beneath the earths surface with a temperatures of more than 1,000C and covering […]

Oklahoma claims it owns the wind, caves in to oil and gas lobby and seeks to set the nation’s highest tax on wind power. Oklahoma’s governor plans to tax the renewable energy industry out of […]

Hundreds of volunteers are racing to rescue hundreds of pilot whales that have beached themselves on the shallows at Farewell Spit. The narrow sand spit, located on the north-western coast of the South Island of […]

A team of scientists from Yale University have found disturbing evidence of a link between vaccines and various neurological disorders.  The team of researchers from the Yale School of Medicine and Penn State College of Medicine […]

Congressman Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) has introduced House Joint Resolution 46, making it easier for oil and gas companies to drill within National Parks. Environmental groups oppose the bill that aims to roll back recently introduced […]

A new study looking at human DNA reveals that early humans may have interbred with a  mysterious ‘alien species’ over 30,000 years ago.  According to scientists, updated genome sequences from two relatives of modern humans […]