Brazil’s Atlantic Forest Gets a Chance at A Fresh Start Through Restoration
PICTURED: Trilha da Figueira Nature Reserve in Brazil’s Paraná state. PC: João P. Burini. CC 4.0. The oft-ignored middle-child…
Category: Coffee Break Reads
Brain Speed Doesn’t Begin to Decline Until Age 60
Mental processing speed does not start to decline until age 60, according to analysis of over a million participants…
Sitting in Front of the TV Increases Risk of Death Even Among Active People
While watching Netflix, a film, or sports after a day at work can be a desirable way to relax,…
Scientists Discover A New Coral Reef—One of the Largest and Most Pristine on Earth
PICTURED: Alexis Rosenfeld photographs deep-water corals off Tahiti. PC: UNESCO/Alexis Rosenfeld/1 Ocean ©. Released. A field of rose shaped…
Millions of Hectares of Rainforest Spared From Development by Indonesian Government: Conservationists Remain Wary
PICTURED: Revoked oil palm plantation permits total 1.7 million hectares. On January 6th, Indonesian President Joko Widodo announced that…
There Were 31 Ship-Mounted Nuclear Weapons In Play in The Falklands War: Declassified Files Show
PICTURED: British warships, pennants painted over, off Gibraltar in March 1982, heading for the Falklands. PC: Pete Reeves CC…
Apparent Sacrificing of Secondary Forests is Saving Virgin Ones
PICTURED: A slash and burn agriculture landscape in the Amazon. PC: Matt Zimmerman. CC 2.0. Year over year increases…
The Great Blue Wall Initiative: COP26 Countries Protect Biodiversity and Use of Oceans
One of the lesser-discussed features of COP26 was the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), announcing a…
Palm Oil Fatty Acids Linked With Colorectal, Breast, Skin, Mouth, and Prostate Cancers
Palmitic acid, the world-changing fatty acid in palm oil, has been shown in recent years of research to induce,…
Here’s What We Learned from the Moon Rocks China Recently Brought Back on Chang’e-5
PICTURED: The Chang’e-5 return module sits on the snow-covered ground in Inner Mongolia, smoldering from its reentry into Earth’s…
Global Government Debt Joins U.S. Levels At Double that of GDP
The Fiscal Monitor, a yearly report issued by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has found that at the end…
The Brain Prefers to Create Memories Out of The Best Life Stories
As our life unfolds, the hippocampus, a part of the brain responsible for creating short term memories for long…
Forget Oil, This Company is Drilling for Magma
Theorized as a potential future center of volcanology on Earth, a “magma well” in remote Iceland is the site…
“State Secrets Privilege” Shields NSA from Lawsuit—Court of Appeals Ruled Wednesday
PICTURED: The NSA headquarters building at Fort Meade, Maryland. A U.S. court has upheld a three year-old dismissal of…
“The Fall of Kabul” Moment was Stark—As Could be the Fall of Baghdad
PICTURED: On the left, an image of the helicopter rescue from the Fall of Saigon, 1975. On the right,…
Perseverance Rover Captures First Rock Sample
PICTURED: The drill hole from Perseverance’s second sample-collection attempt can be seen, in this composite of two images taken…
House Armed Services Committee Approves $24 Billion for a “Space National Guard”
In an already bloated military defense budget, the House Committee on Armed Forces recently marked up the National Defense…
If We Really Want to Save the World’s Biodiversity: Recognize Indigenous Land Rights
DJA BIOSPHERE RESERVE, Cameroon. April 1st 2019. PICTURED: A chief of the Baka pygmies looks pensive in a forest…
Perseverance Rover Drills Up Nothing: Why?
PICTURED: An image taken by the rover of the borehole made in the recent failed extraction. PC: NASA/JPL-Caltech. MARS.…
New Mexico Wilderness Area Grows by 50% After Largest-Ever Land Donation
Sabinoso Wilderness Area in New Mexico, an inaccessible and tiny refuge just 5 years ago, has grown by almost…