Today is a day to celebrate wetlands! February 2 is World Wetlands Day, the date of the adoption of the Convention on Wetlands (the so-called Ramsar Convention). This year the focus is on Wetlands...
Scientists from the University of Oxford Ad Aalto University in Finland have been able to create an item that shows where we feel most uncomfortable when touched by different people....
Global warming is increasing with each day that passes and the poles begin to thaw. New research shows that fungi in Alaska begin to adapt to high temperatures, speeding up their metabolism, growing...
The whole world has been wondering about the reason behind which elephants can never get cancer, however, US researchers were finally able to solve this mystery. They were able to find out...
Cappadocia is a historical region in Central Anatolia, largely in the Nevşehir, Kayseri, Aksaray, and Niğde Provinces in Turkey. The name, traditionally used in Christian sources throughout...
Eagles are large, powerfully built birds of prey, with a heavy head and beak. Even the smallest eagles, like the booted eagle (Aquila pennata) (which is comparable in size to a common buzzard (Buteo...
On 12 December 2015, countries under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Paris Agreement. The legal nature of this new, international agreement requires the following...
Mice whose Y chromosomes have been replaced with just two genes are still able to father offspring, demonstrating the unexpected complexity of reproductive genetics. The Y chromosome is much smaller...
The Climate Change Team at the Lebanese Ministry of Environment, with the support of the United Nations Development Programme and funding from GEF has produced a series of national greenhouse gas...