Australia Receives Backlash for Modest Goals at UN Summit

Medicine & Technology Sep 28, 2014

This week, as the United Nations (UN) held its annual General Assembly regarding global warming and the changing climate, all eyes and ears turned towards New York City, where celebrities, protestors and world leaders all came together for the unified goal of changing the Earth’s future. Though while all nations in attendance were open to the call for change, some found themselves vilified far before their history’s could be written in the record books.

Who’s the Predator And Who’s the Prey? Wyoming Fights Endangered Gray Wolves

Sep 28, 2014

It’s been a war brewing for the last few months, and Wyoming just entered its Hail Mary pass. Only a day after federal court judge Amy Berman Jackson of the Washington D.C. circuit announced that Gray Wolves would once again be inducted to the endangered species list, the state of Wyoming’s Game and Fish Commission appealed to the Secretary of State’s Office in hopes of commencing with its annual wolf-hunting season.

U.S. Territory Comes Under Strict Protection—Species Needing Sanctuary Look To the South Pacific

Sep 26, 2014

Over its short-lived history, the United States has come to acquire a small list of territories outside of its continental limits. And as it happens some are more well-protected than others.

Time to Fall Back—New Fossil Sets Evolutionary Clock Back 60 Million Years

Sep 26, 2014

Documenting their findings in this week’s issue of the journal Nature, Virginia Tech geobiologist Shuhai Xiao and a team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found a multicellular fossil that predates the earliest of our known ancestors by nearly 60 million years; setting the evolutionary clock back quite a bit.

Distant Exoplanet Shows Signs of Water Vapor And Earth-like Skies

Sep 26, 2014

Pulling together the greatest resources in the world such as the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Kepler Space Telescope, one team of international astronomers caught the break they were looking for when they discovered clear skies and more importantly water vapor on a planet 122 light years outside of our very own solar system.