A study in Science found that wild mammals inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone changed their daily routines during Russia’s 2022 occupation of the area, giving scientists a rare record of how animals react when warfare suddenly enters a protected landscape. The research focused on camera-trap footage collected before, during and after Russian forces moved through…
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A study in Cell has revealed how a giant deep-sea isopod can survive more than five years without eating. Researchers linked this rare endurance to a two-part survival system, a huge stomach that stores scarce meals and a bacteria-derived gene that helps slow energy use in cold ocean depths. The research, led by scientists associated…
The U.S. National Science Foundation has reversed course on a plan that would have sharply reduced parts of the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a major ocean-monitoring network used by climate researchers, fisheries scientists and coastal forecasters. The change came after scientists and lawmakers warned that removing hundreds of instruments would create a dangerous blind spot in…
A study in Nature Communications found that atmospheric rivers, long bands of moisture that stream across the sky, can help shape marine heatwaves in the North Pacific and North Atlantic. The work, led by Suqiong Hu and Shineng Hu at Duke University, points to an overlooked link between weather in the air and dangerous warmth…
