Documenting the world’s largest prehistoric rock art in South America – new study

Jun 05, 2024 04:16 am UTC| Nature

We werent the first to lay eyes on the engraving since it was carved into the hillside any number of centuries or millennia ago, not by a long shot. The Venezuelan archaeologist José Maria Cruxent even recorded it...

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By not mining vital minerals, NZ is ‘offshoring its own environmental footprint’ – is that fair?

Jun 05, 2024 04:09 am UTC| Nature

When Resources Minister Shane Jones recently unveiled his draft strategy for mineral mining, it was quickly criticised by the Labour opposition as taking New Zealand backwards. One environmental group even called it a love...

The emerald ash borer has arrived in B.C. — what can we do about it?

Jun 05, 2024 04:08 am UTC| Nature

The emerald ash borer (EAB) is a deceptively beautiful insect. As the first part of the name implies, the one-centimetre long beetles are an iridescent, metallic green. They have large, dark eyes and some might even call...

Groundwater is heating up, threatening life below and above the surface

Jun 05, 2024 04:07 am UTC| Nature

Under your feet lies the worlds biggest reservoir. Groundwater makes up a whopping 97% of all usable freshwater. Where is it? In the voids between grains and cracks within rocks. We see it when it rises to the surface in...

Nearly 25% of land in Africa has been damaged – what’s to blame, and what can be done

Jun 04, 2024 06:33 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature

Land degradation is a huge issue across the continent of Africa. One of its biggest drivers is biological invasions. This is when invasive species (species that arent naturally found in the area) arrive and produce large...

Buying and selling forest carbon as a commodity is dangerous if it trumps other environmental and social uses – new report

Jun 04, 2024 06:31 am UTC| Nature

Forests are great carbon sinks they absorb more carbon from the atmosphere than they release. Globally, forests remove nearly all of the two billion tonnes of carbon dioxide that is currently being removed from the...

What’s that in my nest? How the evolutionary arms race between cuckoos and hosts creates new species

Jun 03, 2024 11:12 am UTC| Nature

How do new species arise? And why are there so many of them? One possible reason is the arms race between animals such as predators and parasites, and the victims they exploit. Many predators and parasites have evolved...