Coming El Niño will be the strongest ever recorded, new forecast predicts
A June update by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts suggests that the coming...
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Is there such a thing as ‘too much’ protein?
Daily protein requirements vary a bit person to person, but some evidence suggests consuming high...
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Microplastics absorb heat in the atmosphere and contribute to global warming — as if they weren’t bad enough
Climate scientists have discovered that microplastics and nanoplastics are helping to drive global...
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Mini lake meets snowy rim of Canada’s oldest ice mass — Earth from space
A 2010 satellite photo shows the point where a small lake bisects the snowy rim of an...
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Human ancestors butchered and ate elephants 1.8 million years ago, helping to fuel their large brains
A professor of anthropology explores how early hominids ate prehistoric elephants to survive. The...
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‘In every continent where humans are present, water bankruptcy is manifesting itself’: Exiled Iranian scientist Kaveh Madani on our desperate need to preserve our most precious resource
Live Science spoke with Kaveh Madani, director of the UN University Institute for Water,...
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Antarctica hides huge caches of gold, silver, copper and iron. As the ice melts, countries may race to harvest them.
Melting ice, rebounding land, and rising seas will change what resources are available in...
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Chemists make hydrogen from breadcrumbs in groundbreaking reaction that could replace some fossil fuels
Chemists say they’ve found a way to turn breadcrumbs into hydrogen, potentially offering a...
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Drought paradox study reveals plants around Colorado River turn to groundwater when it gets too hot and dry, reducing flow into the already strained basin
Vegetation draws on groundwater during dry summers, leaving less water for the river and,...
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‘It’s nature calling to humans, and humans deciding whether or not to reply’: Why we need to start paying attention to our mutually beneficial relationships with other species
MEMBER EXCLUSIVE Live Science spoke with Rob Dunn, an applied ecologist and author...
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‘Blackwater’ lakes and rivers in the Congo Basin are now emitting ancient carbon into the atmosphere
Carbon that has been buried in the Congo Basin’s peatlands for millennia is seeping into...
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‘Humans can’t be considered to be separate from the environment’: Award-winning scientist Meha Jain on using satellites and real world experiences to help farmers in India facing a precarious future
Agriculture in India is under threat from extreme weather events linked to climate change. We...
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China has planted so many trees around the Taklamakan Desert that it’s turned this ‘biological void’ into a carbon sink
Huge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world’s largest and...
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Grim photo captures polar bear mom and cubs resting in mud in summer heat
An image of polar bears napping along the Hudson Bay coast in Canada has been shortlisted for the...
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A deer carrying the rotting head of its vanquished foe and a playful lynx shortlisted for Wildlife Photographer of the Year Nuveen People’s Choice Award
Here are the 24 images shortlisted for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Nuveen People’s...
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Arctic blast will bring ‘life-threatening’ temperatures and dump snow on 150 million Americans. But will it make the trees explode?
An incoming Arctic blast will send temperatures plunging and trigger a massive and long-lasting...
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Amazon rainforest is transitioning to a ‘hypertropical’ climate — and trees won’t survive that for long
The Amazon rainforest currently has a few days or weeks of hot drought conditions per year,...
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Antarctica’s Southern Ocean might be gearing up for a thermal ‘burp’ that could last a century
When humans manage to cut enough emissions and eventually reduce global temperatures, new...
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The evolution of life on Earth ‘almost predictably’ led to human intelligence, neuroscientist says
Neuroscientist Nikolay Kukushkin spoke to Live Science about how human consciousness evolved....
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Science history: Iconic ‘Lucy’ fossil discovered, transforming our understanding of human evolution — Nov. 24, 1974
On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2...
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