A new study shows that increased heat from Arctic rivers is melting sea ice in the Arctic Ocean and warming the atmosphere. The study published this week in Science Advances was led by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, with contributing authors in the United States, United Arab […]
Every time life-long fisherman Mark Dort wades into St. Marys River to cast his line and try to lure fish to his fly, he hopes he’ll land a big one. But this fall, his aim wasn’t just to snag a large trout in the picturesque waterway on Nova […]
Heftier than modern-day gray wolves and capable of cracking the bones of their prey, dire wolves were among the Pleistocene’s most-feared hunters. It’s long been believed that these top predators lived only in the Americas, but researchers have now unearthed the first fossil evidence that dire wolves also […]
A river’s only consistent attribute is change. As the Greek philosopher Heraclitus remarked, “No man ever steps in the same river twice.” Although this dynamic nature is often out of sight and mind, forgetting about it has led to many a historical catastrophe. Recently, UC Santa Barbara geomorphologist […]
A humpback whale has escaped a crocodile-infested river after a weeks-long journey through the perilous waters of a national park in Australia. Three whales initially made a wrong turn into Kakadu National Park’s East Alligator River (which is full of crocodiles) early this month. Officials in Australia’s Northern Territory first spotted […]
The elk didn’t even see the bear coming. On Friday, September 18, Yellowstone National Park visitor B.E. Judson caught “grisly” footage of a Grizzly bear attacking and killing a bull elk in the Yellowstone River, before dragging the carcass to the riverbank to begin his meal.
Paul Stinson was vacationing in Yellowstone National Park when he stumbled across an incredible find. The Texas resident happened upon a herd of bison fording a river, Yahoo! Entertainment shared as video. And Stinson was ready with his camera. As the bison crossed the river, he recorded it all and saved it […]
Australian officials say they will try to guide a humpback whale out of a crocodile-infested river in the Northern Territory after it got lost and ended up 30km (18.5 miles) inland. The whale and others were on an annual sea migration when some of them “took a wrong […]
The Ocean Cleanup (non profit) develops technology to rid the world’s oceans of plastic. To do so, we all need to not only clean up the plastic that is currently there, but also stop new plastic from entering the ocean via rivers. River Cleanup Explained: See the Interceptor […]
