50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: April 2020  

Water Found in Sunlight and Shadow on the Moon

Share this on WhatsApp For most of the space age, the moon has been considered a waterless world. In recent years, however, a steady drip-drip of discovery has shown that at least some parts of the moon—such as the large, permanently shadowed craters at its poles—contain significant deposits of water. This week, two new studies […]

Gulf Oil Platforms Emit Even More Methane Than Reported

Share this on WhatsApp CLIMATEWIRE | Oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico emit more methane than estimated in government inventories, according to researchers from the University of Michigan. Their study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is one of the first to focus primarily on offshore oil and gas […]

Animals Use Social Distancing to Avoid Disease

Share this on WhatsApp On a shallow reef in the Florida Keys, a young Caribbean spiny lobster returns from a night of foraging for tasty mollusks and enters its narrow den. Lobsters usually share these rocky crevices, and tonight a new one has wandered in. Something about the newcomer is not right, though. Chemicals in […]