Regions from Texas to northern Florida were hit this week by a particularly unusual winter event for a region more accustomed to hurricanes than snowfall and cold.
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Living in the city can literally be bad for our health, both mental and physical. However, adding green spaces to urban areas can help limit these harmful effects.
According to astronomers, a ninth planet is hiding at the edge of our solar system and a state-of-the-art telescope installed in Chile could allow us to finally detect it.
The world's oldest crocodile lives peacefully at the Crocworld Conservation Centre in South Africa. A life in captivity that allowed him to reach an exceptionally advanced age.
By pumping water from deep underground before releasing it to the surface, UK start-up Real Ice hopes to limit the extent of melting of the Arctic ice cap. Early tests have been quite promising.
Scientists have analysed a nearly 4,000-year-old tree stump and found that it could help us fight climate change.
Researchers have shown that certain species of sharks could help reduce the population of long-spined sea urchins on the southeast coast of Australia.
Cow pat could well become the basis of a new biofuel in the future, in any case this is the project of 6 large Japanese companies.
Japanese authorities have warned the population that the risk of a powerful earthquake is higher than usual in the country after two successive quakes occurred on Thursday, 8 August in the south of the island.
The development of thermoelectric motors by Sylphaero could make it possible to decarbonise the field of aviation in the future, a real technological revolution.
The mosquito is an insect that many consider very harmful, because of its invasive appearance but also because it can transmit many diseases. However, will we be able to get rid of it once and for all?
Several companies have joined forces to ensure the progress of the future ExoMars mission, the aim of which will be to finally answer the famous question of the presence of life on Mars.
According to a NASA study, heat could make life difficult or even impossible for humans in certain regions of the world in the future.
Human activity is not the only source of CO2 emissions, other natural processes such as weathering and erosion of rocks also emit significant amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
The global climatic phenomenon La Niña will return in the coming months, which could generate significant cyclonic activity before the fall on the Atlantic side.
A sunfish weighing almost 3 tonnes was discovered in 2021 by a team of biologists off the coast of the Azores, a world record for this species but also for bony fish.
There are several types of lightning. They include positive, negative, ascending, and intercloud. But none are as powerful as the superbolt. How can we explain their formation and in which regions of the world are they most common?