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As countries race to cut greenhouse gas emissions, scientists are exploring innovative ways to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) that is already in the atmosphere. One approach attracting growing attention involves something surprisingly simple: spreading finely crushed volcanic rock over farmland.

Scientists are checking if an underwater curtain is what will keep an Antarctic glacier from slowly melting due to warm water. The proposal is to install an underwater curtain about 80 kilometres long and up to 150 metres high in front of the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica.

At the June meet-and-greet organised by the GLFC, half a dozen sea lampreys posed for the cameras at the Capitol. One of them even sucked on the palm of Representative Bill Huizenga, as per a CNN report.

For years, scientists have worried that climate change would steadily reduce food supplies for many whale species as warming oceans altered marine ecosystems. Southern right whales have been part of that concern because they rely heavily on tiny drifting organisms that are sensitive to changing ocean conditions.

Discover how scientists identified fossil fuels as remains of ancient life, not dinosaurs, through physical and chemical evidence.

Honeybee colonies work in an organised way even though no bee tells the others what to do. Young bees look after the queen and baby bees, older ones build and guard the hive, and the oldest workers fly out to collect food.

We have misplaced our keys, spent time trying to locate our parked car, and even overlooked things that were right in front of us. Sometimes, our memory can be rather unreliable, particularly when we have too many things on our mind.

In 2003, scientists began closely examining how an old hunting technique called fladry could be transformed into a modern, non-lethal tool for reducing conflicts between wolves and livestock. Originally used in parts of Eastern Europe and Russia to guide wolves toward traps, lines of hanging flags were later tested as a way to keep wolves away from vulnerable livestock areas.

On an August morning in 2025, a research vessel in the Gulf of Maine released 16,500 gallons of sodium hydroxide (lye) into the ocean while a plume of bright pink dye spread across the water's surface. To onlookers, the vivid pink patch looked alarming.