CHICAGO (Reuters) – The US Department of Agriculture has identified more than a dozen plant species ranging from morning glories to mustard in bags of unsolicited seeds that reach the mailboxes of thousands of Americans, mostly postmarked from China. Unsolicited seeds that arrived in the mail, reported by a U.S. …
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There are few Stranger animals than monkfish, a species that has so much trouble finding a mate that when males and females connect underwater, males fuse their tissue with females for life. After the merger, the two share a single respiratory and digestive system. Scientists have now discovered that monkfish …
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The combined impacts of human-caused sea level rise, storm surge, and high tides could expose an additional 23 million people to coastal flooding in the next 30 years, even with relatively ambitious cuts to greenhouse gas emissions. greenhouse effect, according to a new global study. In the worst case scenario, …
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The state of Maine has restricted swimmers and increased the number of beach watchers after a great white shark killed a 63-year-old woman who was swimming offshore this week. State officials temporarily limited waist-high swimming in 10 beach state parks until further notice, as sharks generally avoid shallow water. They …
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MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines has taken a big step to harness nuclear energy, its energy minister said on Wednesday after President Rodrigo Duterte created an inter-agency panel to study the adoption of a national nuclear energy policy. FILE PHOTO: The Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) is seen during a …
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