1+ hour, 36+ min ago  (852+ words) European official figures tracking how fast the continent loses natural land to construction are published every few years and feed into government targets. The working assumption was that those numbers, however imperfect, were at least roughly accurate. They were off…...

3+ hour, 11+ min ago  (759+ words) The planet's freshwater situation is changing faster than at any point in the industrial era. Both unusually dry and unusually wet conditions have roughly doubled in frequency compared to pre-industrial baselines." This trend is driven primarily by climate change, with…...

3+ hour, 49+ min ago  (863+ words) Deep in the permafrost of Canada's Yukon, ancient ground squirrels left behind something far more valuable than bones. Their droppings, sealed in frozen burrows for hundreds of thousands of years, have turned out to be one of the richest genetic…...

2+ hour, 35+ min ago  (842+ words) Spectacular jets of glowing rock soared into the sky above the Canary Islands for nearly three months in late 2021, burying farms and homes under fresh basalt. Some basaltic volcanoes just dribble out and ooze downhill instead. The chemistry of the…...

3+ hour, 47+ min ago  (829+ words) When COVID-19 spread around the world in 2020, scientists worked as fast as possible to create vaccines. Even so, the virus infected millions of people before the first vaccines became available. Researchers at the University of Cambridge hope to prevent that…...

5+ hour, 1+ min ago  (919+ words) For decades, one of the simplest ways to lower drug costs has been competition. When the patent on a popular medicine expires, cheaper generic versions typically arrive and drive prices down. Today, about 90 percent of prescriptions filled in the United…...

6+ hour, 19+ min ago  (833+ words) Sloths move so slowly that watching one in a dense jungle is its own kind of test. They have stayed hard to study for the same reason they are so beloved, hidden high in the trees and barely moving at…...

12+ hour, 18+ min ago  (866+ words) Doctors reading brain scans for signs of aging or disease have never had a reference point for the brain's internal wiring. No curve, no baseline, no way to tell whether what they are seeing is unusual for someone that age....

14+ hour, 16+ min ago  (12+ words) Images Archive Earth. com Stellar nursery glows in the Large Magellanic Cloud...

16+ hour, 58+ min ago  (778+ words) For decades, satellites have watched forests by reading one cue: green for healthy, fading green for trouble. A new study finds a blind spot in that approach " and a sharper route to flash drought detection. The blind spot is timing....