5+ hour, 57+ min ago  (250+ words) Beavers are large semiaquatic rodents best known for building dams, but new research suggests they may also help in the fight against climate change. According to a new international study led by researchers from the University of Birmingham in the…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (655+ words) While progress has been slow and expensive, a Massachusetts city remains determined to cut back how much untreated sewage it dumps into the Connecticut River. Sometimes in the Pioneer Valley, when it rains, it pours. And if it pours enough,…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (272+ words) According to a new study, mountains around the world are warming faster than surrounding lowlands. The increased heat at higher elevations is melting glaciers and reducing snowfall. This threatens a vital source of fresh water for more than a billion…...

6+ mon, 5+ day ago  (334+ words) Deep-sea mining is the extraction of minerals from the seabed in the deep ocean. Most of the interest is in what are known as polymetallic nodules, which are potato-sized mineral deposits that have built up in layers over thousands of…...

1+ year, 13+ hour ago  (797+ words) That's because humans have seen less than 0. 001%. .. To try to get a better accounting of the total area of the deep seafloor that's been observed so far, she and her colleagues created a database. .. Bizarre creatures like vampire squid and…...