The cold hard glacial truth

Lewis Owen has been scraping out icy fragments of history’s truth from one of the most glaciated regions on Earth for the past 25 years. His frequent excursions to Tibet and the Himalayas have led the University of Cincinnati professor of geology to some cold,...

Thought-to-be-Extinct Harlequin Frog Rediscovered in Costa Rica

The critically endangered harlequin frog (Atelopus varius), believed to be extinct in Costa Rica, has been rediscovered in the Talamanca Mountains of southern Costa Rica by an international team of researchers. The harlequin frog was a relatively common species in...

Illinois – 1.7 million people choose 100% green electricity

Illinois is one of six US states that allows communities to aggregate and specify their energy purchases. Now 91 – comprising 1.7 million people – have used that power to buy 100% renewable electricity. Illinois has embraced renewable electricity on a...

Warmer years linked to more malaria in tropical highlands

[BOGOTA] People in densely populated highlands of Africa and South America — who have so far been protected from malaria by cooler temperatures — may be seeing more of the disease as the climate changes, according to a study in Science (6 March).

Stonehenge, acoustically speaking

Why did the builders of Stonehenge choose to transport giant bluestones hundreds of kilometers from Wales to Salisbury Plain? Dr. George Nash from Bristol’s Department of Archaeology and Anthropology is involved in research, which is taking a novel approach to...

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