Slovakia court acquits businessman Marian Kocner in shooting death of reporter Jan Kuciak

A special criminal court acquitted Slovak businessman Marian Kocner and an associate on Thursday of masterminding the death of journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee two years ago.

Watch: Wandering koala rescued from suburban tree

Wildlife rescuers and firefighters responded to a suburban house in Australia when a young boy spotted a koala up a tree outside his home.

Erratum for the Report "Generation of influenza A viruses as live but replication-incompetent virus vaccines" by L. Si, H. Xu, X. Zhou, Z. Zhang, Z. Tian, Y. Wang, Y. Wu, B. Zhang, Z. Niu, C. Zhang, G. Fu, S. Xiao, Q. Xia, L. Zhang, D. Zhou

Plants sustain the terrestrial silicon cycle during ecosystem retrogression

The biogeochemical silicon cycle influences global primary productivity and carbon cycling, yet changes in silicon sources and cycling during long-term development of terrestrial ecosystems remain poorly understood. Here, we show...

Predicting temperature mortality and selection in natural Drosophila populations

Average and extreme temperatures will increase in the near future, but how such shifts will affect mortality in natural populations is still unclear. We used a dynamic model to predict...

Australia continues ban on travel through mid-December

Australia's Ministry of Health announced Thursday it was extending a ban on residents leaving the country through Dec. 17 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The wilds of one Lake Ontario bay reveal how coastal habitats suffer from changing climate, human choices

Lake Ontario is more swamp than mighty Great Lake at the edge of Braddock Bay, where 15-foot cattails rustle in the breeze.

Motor vehicles one source of roadway air pollution – pavement asphalt is another, research reveals

The below Sept. 2, 2020 news release is from Yale University. Asphalt is a near-ubiquitous substance — it’s found in roads, on roofs and in driveways — but its chemical...

Asphalt adds to air pollution, especially on hot, sunny days

Asphalt is a near-ubiquitous substance -- it's found in roads, on roofs and in driveways -- but its chemical emissions rarely figure into urban air quality management plans. A new...

NASA-NOAA satellite catches Hurricane Nana making landfall under cover of night

NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite provided a nighttime look at Hurricane Nana just after it began making landfall in Belize.

Scripps Receives NOAA Award to Study Clouds, One of the Largest Uncertainties in Climate Change

Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego have received an award from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to study low cloud “hot-spots,”...

Zombie fires spark record Arctic CO2 emissions

This summer’s carbon emissions from Arctic wildfires were a third higher than last year’s levels.

A Machine-Learning Assist to Predicting Hurricane Intensity

Portal origin URL: A Machine-Learning Assist to Predicting Hurricane IntensityPortal origin nid: 464105Published: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 - 08:11Featured (stick to top of list): noPortal text teaser: NASA research could help to improve forecasts of...

Titans sign ex-Patriots kicker Stephen Gostkowski

The Tennessee Titans on Thursday signed former New England Patriots kicker Stephen Gostkowski.

The best boating tubes

The most fun you can have on a lake. (Jesse Orrico via Unsplash/)What better way to spice up your waterfront vacation than with a bright boating tube? They are always a great,...

Great Barrier Reef 'glue' at risk from ocean acidification

Scientists have suspected that increasing ocean acidity would weaken and thin the structures underpinning tropical reefs. Now they have irrefutable evidence dating back 30,000 years.

20% less water in Murray-Darling rivers than expected under Basin Plan

The Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists have published a report that shows 20 percent of river water, expected under the Basin Plan, did not flow in the rivers of the...

Japan searching for cargo ship carrying cattle missing in East China Sea

The Japanese Coast Guard said Thursday it was searching for a cargo ship that went missing in the East China Sea after rescuing one of 43 crew believed to have...

Eviction court is back. Financially struggling tenants remain protected, for now

California and the Trump administration issued protections this week that keep many tenants from losing their homes

Exploring the impact of climate change on energy systems at both a global and regional scale

Over the past few decades, scientists have become increasingly aware of the adverse effects that human activities are having on the environment and climate on Earth. These environmental and climatic...

Watch: Tye Sheridan is stranded in new 'Wireless' trailer

Tye Sheridan is stranded in the Colorado mountains in the newest trailer for upcoming Quibi series, "Wireless."

Hot asphalt releases chemicals that contribute to air pollution, study shows

Asphalt baking in the summer sunshine is no fun for tender feet, but a new study suggests it's not doing your lungs any favors either.

North Korea waiting for elections to resume talks, ex-U.S. commander says

North Korea may be waiting until 2021 to resume diplomacy with the South, and with the United States after the November presidential election, the former top U.S. commander to Korea...

Britain, France, Germany are siding with Iran's ayatollahs

Britain, France and Germany seem determined to carve out their place as Europe's top appeasers. The three countries have rejected America's proposal to reimpose sanctions on Iran.

New approach can improve monitoring of contaminants in groundwater

A large international collaboration which included ANSTO has found that a combination of isotopic and conventional techniques can distinguish between multiple sources of contaminants impacting groundwater in complex environments.

Lab-grown earthquakes reveal the frictional forces acting beneath our feet

Simulating an earthquake on a miniature scale in a laboratory known unofficially as the "seismological wind tunnel," engineers and seismologists have produced the most comprehensive look to date at the...

Australia likely to experience up to 35% more El Niños under new projections

The "butterfly effect" is used by climate scientists to refer to an infinitesimally random perturbation to an identical initial condition (for example, in surface temperatures) causing drastically different El Niño...

Euthanized black bear upsets residents in a North Shore neighbourhood of Metro Vancouver

The Ministry of Environment says the Conservation Service euthanized a female black bear in the North Shore community of Deep Cove after the bear became persistent and generated multiple complaints.