(Natural News) Researchers are plumbing the depths of Mauna Loa in Hawaii to study the volcano’s lava tubes. The researchers wear bulky suits like those required for space exploration while navigating volcanic terrain and conducting research. Besides studying the environment and organisms living there, the team’s goal is to prepare for the unique challenges of living in space, particularly on Mars […]

(Natural News) Switzerland wants the United Nations’ environmental arm to take the lead on talks about how to use an untested technology that tampers with nature to slow down climate change. The technology involves geoengineering techniques that reflect the sun’s rays away and suck carbon from the atmosphere. These techniques have long been talked about as last-resort solutions […]

(Natural News) Just three percent of the world’s land remains ecologically intact, according to a study published April 15 in the journal Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. And of those few intact ecosystems, only around 11 percent fall within existing protected areas. However, many of those pristine habitats exist in northern latitudes, which are not […]

(Natural News) A new study published in the journal Astrobiology suggests that the subsurface of Mars may be habitable. In the study, researchers explain that the same chemical reactions supporting microbial life deep beneath the Earth’s surface can occur in the Martian underground. An important component for those reactions is water, and past studies suggest that Mars may be […]

(Natural News) Researchers from the University of Oklahoma and the University of Notre Dame found that the more than 45 million grasshoppers that swarmed Las Vegas one summer night in 2019 did so due to light pollution. The researchers said that artificial lights lured the grasshoppers into the city, noting that the greatest numbers were concentrated over where the lights were brightest. “It’s really […]

(Natural News) Despite being constantly portrayed as such in popular media, not all extinction events involve the apocalyptic and instantaneous dying off of complex creatures such as the dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts – some of them are more gradual and happen over longer periods of time and deal with creatures that are on the […]

(Natural News) Many of us are willing to overlook our concerns about harsh cleaning chemicals these days if it means protection from coronavirus, but one Spanish town has gone way too far and sprayed an entire beach with a bleach solution. That’s right: Authorities in Zahara de los Atunes, which is situated near Cadiz, sprayed […]

(Natural News) Locked deep beneath our oceans, according to scientists, are deposits of frozen methane. Dubbed “fire ice,” these deposits, once released, can trigger large-scale natural catastrophes such as tsunamis and landslides – and scientists and experts currently have no idea how much of these fire ice deposits exist. According to Ann Cook, an associate […]

(Natural News) Talk of a “catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems” is not hyperbole; that’s the exact terminology used in the first global scientific review of the world’s insect populations. Overall, more than 40 percent of insect species are seeing declines, while a third are considered endangered. The extinction rate of insects is eight times that […]

(Natural News) There’s a serious climate emergency taking place, but it has nothing to do with internal combustion engines, cow farts, red meat, or Greta Thunberg. The truth is this: Big Pharma is massively polluting our planet with pharmaceutical drugs that, because they don’t fully biodegrade, end up settling in the freshwater ecosystems that we […]