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White tigers at Chimelong Safari Park in China. Credit: Chimelong Safari Park White tigers today are only seen in zoos, but they belong in nature, say researchers reporting new evidence ...

White tigers at Chimelong Safari Park in China. Credit: Chimelong Safari Park White tigers today are only seen in zoos, but they belong in nature, say researchers reporting new evidence ...

Until now, little was scientifically known about the human potential to cultivate compassion — the emotional state of caring for people who are suffering in a way that motivates altruistic ...

Researchers call for massive mission: discover 10 million species in 50 years Top 10 New Species 2013. Composite: Jacob Sahertian An amazing glow-in-the-dark cockroach, a harp-shaped ...

Researchers call for massive mission: discover 10 million species in 50 years Top 10 New Species 2013. Composite: Jacob Sahertian An amazing glow-in-the-dark cockroach, a harp-shaped ...

Researchers call for massive mission: discover 10 million species in 50 years Top 10 New Species 2013. Composite: Jacob Sahertian An amazing glow-in-the-dark cockroach, a harp-shaped ...

UCLA life scientists provide important new details on how climate change will affect interactions between species in research published online May 21 in the Journal of Animal Ecology. ...

Photo by: Robert Lachlan, Duke Having the biggest playlist doesn't make a male songbird the brainiest of the bunch, a new study shows. "For songbirds, singing a lot of songs indicates ...

Scientists from NOAA Fisheries Service approaching the young North Atlantic right whale they disentangled on January 15 off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Fla. Credit: NOAA with permission ...

Synthesis of recent findings Concerns continue to grow about the effects of climate change on fire. Wildfires are expected to increase 50 percent across the United States under a changing ...

Abundant corals are shown in a shallow Hawaiian lagoon. Credit: Keoki Stender Researchers from the University of Hawaii – Manoa (UHM) School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology ...

Increased numbers of walrus on haul-outs are being observed due to receding summer sea ice in the Arctic. As many as 100,000 have been reported on land at one time at Cape Serdtse-Kamen ...

Study IDs 2 compressed air energy storage methods, sites for the Northwest Credit: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Enough Northwest wind energy to power about 85,000 homes each ...

The mouth of the Amazon River has three main channels, with an island the size of Switzerland in the middle. Credit: NASA The Amazon rain forest, popularly known as the lungs of the ...

Report presented to U.S. Coast Guard for use in contingency plans Disabled T/B DBL 152 vessel discharges oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 2005. Credit: ENTRIX, Inc. NOAA presented to ...