California is currently in what many are calling a 500 year drought. According to the U.S. Drought Monitor 71.78% of California is currently under an extreme drought and the Governor of California has declared a drought emergency which included, among other things, suspending the California Environmental Quality Act. -Leer más.
 | Es una charca condenada. Hemos conocido su valor demasiado tarde. Ya está decidido construir una carretera justo encima de ella, nada menos que la segunda circunvalación de Granada. De hecho, las obras empezaron hace tiempo y el terreno ya ha sido allanado, aunque la crisis -aquí bendita crisis- las ha paralizado. Leer más. |
Research cameras trained on the nests of Florida reptiles have caught giant, invasive lizards in the act of pilfering eggs – making them a potential threat to native turtles, alligators and crocodiles. Leer más.
The different crested newt species typically have very distinct mitochondrial DNA. However, as these guys hybridize like rabbits, often the mitochondrial DNA of one species has locally been transferred (introgressed) into the wrong species. ‘Locally’ can refer to quite an extensive range actually. Leer más.
As far back as the time of the dinosaurs, 66 million years ago, forests recovered from fires in the same manner they do today, according to a researchers. During an expedition in southern Saskatchewan, Canada, the team discovered the first fossil-record evidence of forest fire ecology — the regrowth of plants after a fire — revealing a snapshot of the ecology on earth just before the mass extinction of the dinosaurs. Leer más.
