MsCuttsScienceOcean Exploration Nearly 20 percent of Earth’s seafloor is now mapped The Verge - Justine CalmaIn a decisive leap, researchers have now mapped roughly one fifth of the world’s ocean floor. When an initiative to map the entire seafloor by 2030 took off in 2017, just 6 percent had been mapped to standards.
MsCuttsScienceEnvironment European hamster and caterpillar fungus on brink of extinction The Guardian - Fiona Harvey Environment correspondentHamsters and fungi may not be poster species among those threatened with extinction but are no less important in ecosystems, according to an updated list of the world’s most fragile species. The European
MsCuttsScienceScience Ships Hit Smaller Sea Animals More Often than Researchers Thought scientificamerican.com - Danielle Beurteaux The danger to whales and other large marine mammals from oceangoing vessels’ propellers and bows has long been recognized. And efforts are in place …
MsCuttsScienceEndangered Species European hamster among latest species to become critically endangered CNN(CNN) — "This is a year that didn't happen," says Craig Hilton-Taylor. Many of us may wish this was the case. Hilton-Taylor, of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), is referring the
MsCuttsScienceNews Japan’s Deadly Combination: Climate Change and an Aging Society The New York Times - Motoko Rich, Makiko Inoue and Hisako UenoTOKYO — The forecast was dire: close to nine inches of rain in a single day. Officials in Kuma, a village on the banks of a fast-moving river in southwestern Japan, urged everyone to evacuate. Yet inside
