Extreme weather: Understanding birds’ response can help conservation efforts

All birds respond differently to different extreme weather events; long- and short-distance migration bird species are impacted differently …

Climate change may reduce carbon dioxide uptake by forests: Study

Tree growth in Arizona will decline 22-117% under future climatic conditions

Omicron: What the next few weeks will look like

Social mixing over Christmas is likely to increase infections

More droughts brought on by climate change could worsen wildfires in US’s southern Appalachian forests

Drought years will contribute most to future burned areas

Francisco de Orellana would be stunned and stupefied by the low water levels in the Amazon: Buddy Levy

Down To Earth speaks to Idaho-based author of 2011 book on the first voyage to navigate the Amazon river in 1542

US scientists develop vaccine that protects chickens from bird flu

Officials are currently testing the vaccine on turkeys

El Niño-triggered floods claim 72 lives in Peru

More floods to be expected, says the national weather service

Seized by a sense of urgency, Obama bans oil drilling in large parts of Arctic, Atlantic

Canada also imposed a five-year ban on new licensing in all Arctic waters

Travel mystery of a turtle

New test tracks vanishing loggerheads in Florida

Northern hemisphere gets too hot to handle

Be it Europe, Asia or the Middle East, all are setting heat milestones

MRI scan gets sharper

New MRI offers five times more accurate breast cancer scans

Will there be gas at the end of it?

Iran-Pakistan (and US) pipeline politics

Salt assault

Excessive salt use may trigger autoimmune diseases

Cancer research goes 3D

3D cell cultures may help understand the disease better

Radiation remedy

Antibiotic-protein combo may alleviate radiation sickness

Siblings’ Facebook war

Facebook>> Drug • Germany

The wisdom of the unlettered

Hail yoga, stretching

Better option than modern medicine for back pain

Mosquitoes befuddled

Certain smells can lure mosquitoes away from humans

Infect the mosquitoes

Bacteria that can control malarial spread identified

Division of labour

How biodiversity helps clean pollutants in water and soil

Lawsuit over bike lane in New York

Most say it calms traffic, some claim threatens pedestrians’ safety

Now, artificial blood cells

They can be potential drug carriers

Sooty energy

Documentary>> Coal • the US

The new breadbasket