Nearly 3 billion animals affected by Australian bushfires, report finds
Isabella O Malley
jeudi, 30 juillet 2020 à 15:45 - The researchers that contributed to this report say that climate change is making wildfires in Australia more frequent and intense.
The severe bushfire outbreak in Australia from 2019 to early 2020 was the country’s worst fire season on record and nothing short of a catastrophe for the environment. Thousands of people faced emergency evacuations, global carbon dioxide levels climbed and footage of helpless marsupials engulfed in flames went viral worldwide.
An interim report, with contributors from several scientific institutions and funding from World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), quantifies just how gruesome the bushfires death toll was - nearly three billion animals were killed or displaced, a number that is almost three times greater than the previous estimate.
At least four other people remain unaccounted for on Saturday evening, with Prime Minister Scott Morrison saying he feared the number of deaths could rise.
Lost Viking ‘highway’ and artifacts revealed by melting glaciers
Isabella O Malley
jeudi, 16 avril 2020 à 17:43 - Objects that were found on this Viking mountain pass in Norway include mittens, knives, horseshoes and walking sticks.
Melting glaciers in Lendbreen, Norway have revealed a lost mountain pass and artifacts that were used by the Vikings. A new study details these findings and the work that researchers have done at this site since it was first uncovered in 2011.
The researchers believe the mountain pass was used for local traffic, trade and long-distance travel during the Roman Iron Age in 300 AD to the Viking Age in 1000 AD. Their fieldwork found an undated stone-built shelter and a large number of stone structures that could be landmarks or memorials, which indicates that this mountain pass had some type of significance to the people travelling through.
Most polar bears could be extinct by 2100 as the Arctic warms
Isabella O Malley
jeudi, 30 juillet 2020 à 14:03 - The polar bears in Canada’s Queen Elizabeth Islands could be the subpopulation last by the end of this century.
Over the past few decades, polar bears have become an omnipresent symbol of climate change - a formidable, yet loveable, majestic creature that is slowly watching its habitat melt as global temperatures rise.
Whether it is a connection with our Canadian landscape or admiration of their emblematic stature, many of us have an affinity to these northern furry creatures. This collective fondness of polar bears is what makes the study published by