(Natural News) Think you’re saving the planet from climate change by driving an electric vehicle and switching to a “plant-based” diet? Think again. In a paper he recently published, Bjørn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, deconstructs the myth that lugging around reusable grocery bags and using paper straws instead of plastic have any […]

(Natural News) Some crabs inhabit the shorelines, but not everyone notices them. You would have to look really closely to see the vague outline of these crustaceans in their habitat. Their ability to camouflage did not happen by chance. Scientists believe that their habitat influenced how these crabs evolved. Researchers from the University of Exeter‘s Penryn Campus […]

(Natural News) There really is nothing more annoying than a hypocrite. Very few of us are likely to pay attention to someone who insists on a certain course of action, but then doesn’t follow it themselves. Hypocrisy seems to reign supreme when it comes to global warming zealots, whether they are scientists, activists or celebrities. […]

(Natural News) The deep-see dragonfish is truly a predator meant for the murky depths of the ocean. Aside from its dark skin that allows it to blend in with the ocean’s depths, it has another tool in its arsenal: invisible teeth. A team of oceanographers and materials scientists from the University of California and the INM-Leibniz Insititute for New Materials in […]

(Natural News) Imagine stumbling upon a fossil from the Pleistocene era during a trek at a farm. That’s exactly what happened to a teenager who, while hunting for arrowheads, discovered a 30-inch-long fossilized mastodon jaw complete with teeth, on a farm in southern Iowa. According to paleontologists from the University of Iowa who analyzed the […]

(Natural News) At the rate that plants are disappearing, experts warn that in the future, the idiom “God’s green earth” may end up becoming just a figure of speech and nothing more. According to a recent paper published in the journal Nature, Ecology and Evolution, 571 plant species are no longer found on Earth — more […]

(Natural News) Michigan’s drinking water woes are poised to get even worse as officials recently confirmed that a property in Detroit that was contaminated with dangerous chemicals including uranium collapsed into the Detroit River on November 26. The Detroit Dock site collapsed as heavy aggregate piles were stored there over Thanksgiving weekend. Situated at 5851 […]

(Natural News) It’s not every day you get to see a fish holding its breath, let alone for up to relatively long stretches of time. But this is exactly the sight that greeted researchers Nicholas Long and Stacy Farina while observing footage captured by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) remotely operated vehicles (ROV). According […]

(Natural News) To tourists and curious onlookers, the sparkling blue glow surrounding Taiwan’s Matsu Islands may look like a scene straight out of a Disney movie. Experts argue, however, that there’s a much darker side to this beautiful sight. “It’s toxic,” Chanmin Hu, an oceanographer at the University of South Florida, said in an interview […]

(Natural News) In November 2019, thousands of short-tailed shear water birds washed up dead on the beautiful beaches of Sydney, Australia. The locals are accustomed to seeing beautiful sea birds arrive this time of year in healthy flocks; the locals did not expect thousands of foul birds to wash up dead on the shore. Food […]