(Natural News) Sediment cores taken from White Pond in South Carolina show that an extraterrestrial collision may have triggered an abrupt change in the Earth’s climate 12,800 years ago, said archaeologist Christopher Moore of the University of South Carolina.  About 14,500 years ago, Earth’s climate began to shift from glacial to interglacial, characterized by warmer temperatures. However, partway […]

(Natural News) Scientists are gearing up for an expedition deep off Florida’s gulf coast in August. The scientists, with help from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), are looking to probe the Green Banana — a mysterious blue hole that begins 155 feet below the ocean’s surface. Blue holes are underwater sinkholes that form when rainwater dissolves a hole through limestone rock. They are […]

(Natural News) Bees may be tiny, but home gardeners and farmers rely on these hardworking insects for pollination. However, a recent study has found that crop yields in the U.S. are declining because of a lack of pollinators. The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, has researchers from Rutgers […]

(Natural News) The fight against the ongoing Wuhan coronavirus pandemic seems to have had an unintended but worrying environmental consequence. Improperly disposed of personal protective equipment (PPE) is now finding its way into the world’s oceans. Nonprofit group Operation Mer Propre – French for “Operation Clean Sea” – is warning that there could now be “more […]

(Natural News) It turns out, “talking trees” exist beyond science fiction, says actual science. The idea of trees talking – and humans understanding them – is a hot topic in environmental science. But for Suzanne Simard, a biologist and a pioneer of inter-plant communication research from the University of British Columbia, the idea that trees talk isn’t up for debate. In […]

(Natural News) Plastics are everywhere – in food packaging, everyday items you use and even in personal hygiene products. But according to the shocking results of a study, there are also plastics inside your body. These findings, which were published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, showed that people ingest at least 50,000 microplastics annually. Despite the various […]

(Natural News) Less than a year before the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) appeared out of nowhere, a team of researchers conducted a planetary “health check”, which led them to declare that the rapid destruction of Earth’s ecosystems represents an existential serious threat to humanity. And part of this threat apparently involves an increase in the rate […]

(Natural News) Researchers from Harvard University are suggesting that the levels of methylmercury in fish such as swordfish, cod and Atlantic bluefin tuna have been rising since at least the 197os. Methylmercury is an organic and highly toxic form of mercury. When people suffer from mercury poisoning, it is usually from ingesting large amounts of methylmercury. […]

(Natural News) Sharks are often depicted as terrifying creatures, but according to a study conducted by researchers from the international conservation charity Zoological Society of London (ZSL), these underwater predators are in danger from an even bigger threat: Human activity. Sharks and the dangers of industrial fishing Findings from the study, which were published in PLOS […]

(Natural News) There is a method to the madness – or at least there is for the microbes who adopted a cooperative, communal approach when it comes to securing nourishment from their environment. This is according to a new study from the University of Exeter, in which researchers looked for possible factors that could have influenced […]