Which bird migrates the farthest?

Which bird migrates the farthest? Over its lifetime of about 25 years, an Arctic tern can fly nearly 3 times the distance from the Earth to the moon.

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Democrats Weigh Carbon Tax After Manchin Rejects Key Climate Provision

WASHINGTON — Some House and Senate Democrats, smarting from a move by Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, to kill a major element of President Biden’s climate plan, are switching to Plan B: a tax on carbon dioxide…

Joe Manchin reportedly opposes key Biden climate program – NPR

Sen. Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, speaks to members of the media while departing the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 7. Manchin has reportedly told the White House that he opposes the key climate measure in Biden’s multitrillion-dollar climate…

Study Reports Incredible New Numbers For Critically Endangered Grauer’s Gorilla Species

A new study estimated the global population of Grauer’s gorillas—the world’s largest gorilla subspecies–and it reported good news for rangers, nonprofits, and caretakers who have been saving this Critically Endangered animal. From a previous global estimate of 3,800 individuals, the number has almost doubled to 6,800 individuals. This revised estimate comes from recent field surveys […]

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To Learn Bees’ Secrets, Count Them One by One

All through late summer and early fall, Max McCarthy, a graduate student at Rutgers University, walked around wetlands in northern New Jersey with a mesh net catching bees, which he marked with tiny colored pens. Three dots, each a different…

Opinion | How Best to Save the Planet – The New York Times

Marcia BjornerudAppleton, Wis.The writer is a professor of geosciences at Lawrence University. To the Editor: David Keith appropriately calls for greater research and public debate on solar geoengineering. But he trivializes substantial global governance questions that should be thoroughly addressed…

Most CO2 From Australia’s Megafires Was Gobbled Up By Algal Blooms

When 715 million metric tons of carbon dioxide was coughed up into the atmosphere from the massive 2019-20 wildfires in Australia, scientists feared global warming had just been given a steroid shot. New research, however, reminds us of just how…

Biggest Polluter Won’t Attend Climate Summit, Kerry Pessimistic On Progress

Update: As if to confirm the shitshow we expected below, just two weeks before a crucial summit in Rome, Bloomberg reports that the world’s major economies are gridlocked in their efforts to agree on concrete steps to tackle climate change….

Major Climate Program May Be Nixed From Dems’ Spending Package

A major program in the Democrats’ push to fight climate change is likely to be removed from their spending plan amid opposition from Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), according to multiple reports.  Both The New York Times and CNN reported the likely cut…

G20 Climate Talks Stall Ahead Of Major Summit In Rome

The world’s major economies are gridlocked in their efforts to agree on concrete steps to tackle climate change just two weeks before a crucial summit in Rome, according to three people familiar with the matter. Preparatory talks between G-20 officials…