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Oldest bird is new mom

By Allison Bohac / February 26, 2013

Wisdom, an albatross who is estimated to be 62 years old, tends to her newly hatched chick. She is the oldest known wild bird. Credit: John Klavitter/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

At 62, albatross hatches a healthy chick

Posted in Animals | Tagged albatross, bird banding, bird fertility, Bruce Peterjohn, Chandler Robbins, Geological Survey, getinvolved, Laysan, leg banding, long lifespan, Midway atoll, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, topstories, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, USF&WS, USGS, Wisdom

Python-palooza!

By Janet Raloff / August 22, 2012

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Monster-sized Burmese python bearing record-number of eggs retrieved in the Florida Everglades

Posted in Animals | Tagged accelerometer, adaptations, Burmese python, Davidson College, DNA, ecology, environmental science, Everglades, feature, Florida Keys, Florida Museum of Natural History, giant snakes, GPS, Kenneth Krysko, Kristen Hart, mercury, Michael Dorcas, national park, P-52, P51, radio tracking, salt water, Skip Snow, topstories, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS

Weird weather

By Roberta Kwok / August 3, 2012

Texas soil cracked by a prolonged drought. Scientists are beginning to link such extreme weather events to global warming. Credit: © Ann Worthy, iStockphoto

Global warming helped trigger heat waves and droughts last year

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged American Meteorological Society, Chris Funk, climate change, crop losses, David Rupp, East African drought, getinvolved, global warming, greenhouse effect, La Nina, Oregon State University, severe weather, starvation, Texas drought, Thailand flooding, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS

A Change in Climate

By Emily Sohn / November 30, 2004

Global warming may be wiping out some plants and animals or pushing them into new habitats.

Posted in Weather & Climate | Tagged carbon dioxide, climate change, ecology, Erik Beever, extreme weather, forests, global warming, greenhouse effect, greenhouse gases, James Brown, Little Ice Age, mountains, pika, spruce, tree line, U.S. Geological Survey, University of New Mexico, USGS