May 2, 2016 Happy Earth Day! 5 ways to get kids to help the planet Earth is a constant marvel, especially for children who enjoy learning about its wonders
May 2, 2016 How to celebrate Earth Day 2015 with NASA Today (April 22) is the 45th anniversary of Earth Day, and NASA has a series of activities planned to celebrate the beauty of our home planet.
May 2, 2016 For Earth Day, Levi Strauss & Co. wants consumers to pledge to wash less Did you know that about 3,800 liters of water are used over the course of the lifetime of a pair of jeans? What about this statistic – consumer care, like washing, contributes 37 percent of the roughly 74 pounds of carbon dioxide emitted during a pair of jeans’ use. The figures come from a recent Levi Strauss & Co. study on the impact that jeans have on the environment, an update on a similar 2007 report from the company. The goal was to shed light on the fairly large-scale impact that wearing a pair of jeans – something most people just take for granted – can have.
May 2, 2016 Huge underwater canyon is home to amazing deep-sea creatures A two-week-long seafaring mission off the coast of western Australia has helped illuminate a deep and dark underwater abyss the size of the Grand Canyon
May 2, 2016 Weird 'water tongue' lets fish feed on land A fish that uses water as a sort of tongue to feed on land could shed light on how animals with backbones first invaded land, researchers say
May 2, 2016 'America's great migration:' Thousands of cranes meet along Nebraska river Right now, visitors from around the world are flocking to the banks of the Platte River near Kearney, Neb. to see what Bill Taddicken, director of the Audubon Center at Rowe Sanctuary, calls “one of the last great migrations remaining” on Earth. From March through early April, about 600,000 sandhill cranes — nearly 90 percent of the world’s total sandhill population – will make a stop at the Nebraskan river, something of a pit stop on the “Central Flyway,” their path to breeding grounds in Canada, Alaska, and as far away as Siberia.
May 2, 2016 Baby great white sharks surprise Southern California beachgoers Cue the John Williams score – there’ve been great white shark sightings very close off the shores of the beach at Ventura, Calif. But, experts say, this is nothing worry about – these are “Jaws” of the baby variety. About eight to 10 juvenile sharks have been spotted sticking close to the warmest, shallowest areas near the coastline.
May 2, 2016 Confirmed: Space rock created Swedish lake After two centuries of arguing about its origin, scientists have finally confirmed that Hummeln Lake in southern Sweden is an impact crater
May 2, 2016 Sorry, spiders: Sea snails make strongest material on Earth Step aside, Spider-Man: The world's strongest stuff isn't your silk; it's sea snail teeth
May 2, 2016 Vast bed of metal balls found in deep sea Scattered along the seafloor, dense clusters of large metal lumps have been discovered by scientists trolling for deep-sea creatures between South America and Africa The R/V Sonne, a German research ship, was several hundred miles east of Barbados when a mesh net meant to capture marine life instead brought up balls of manganese ore that were bigger than softballs.
