Technology & Science

In Brazil, extensive swaths of rainforest are being decimated for logging and farmland. In Asia, animals are being collected within the wild and bought in markets. In Africa, some animals are hunted right down to near-extinction for his or her so-called medicinal qualities. Meanwhile, in nations like Canada and the …

Hello, folks! This is our weekly e-newsletter on all issues environmental, the place we spotlight developments and options which are shifting us to a extra sustainable world. (Sign up right here to get it in your inbox each Thursday.) This week: Are physical distancing measures giving bikes a new lease on life? As vitality …

Scientists have found out the best way to calculate the age of whale sharks — Earth’s largest fish — with some steering from the radioactive fallout spawned by Cold War-era atomic bomb testing. By measuring ranges of carbon-14, a naturally occurring radioactive factor that is also a by-product of nuclear explosions, the …

The largest, brightest supermoon of 2020 rose in the night sky on Tuesday. Here’s a have a look at the supermoon as seen from totally different elements of the world, starting with St. Petersburg, Russia, the place it rose behind the well-known Chariot of Glory sculpture. (Anton Vaganov/Reuters) Halifax If the moon is …

Zoom has emerged as an indispensable video conferencing instrument for distant work and examine as hundreds of thousands of individuals  are pressured to remain house in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. But a rising variety of so-called Zoom-bombing incidents is prompting warnings from the FBI and from the victims themselves. People taking part in …

Google has revealed charts exhibiting how the coronavirus has introduced hard-hit Italy to a standstill, led to runs on grocery shops world wide and prompted a stark drop in going out between Mardi Gras and St. Patrick’s Day. The evaluation of location data from billions of Google customers’ telephones is the most important public …

Hong Kong big pandas residing in Ocean Park “successfully” mated naturally for the primary time on Monday after a decade of makes an attempt, the theme park introduced. Ocean Park had tried to get the 14-year-old feminine and male big pandas, Ying Ying and Le Le, to mate naturally since …

NASA has developed a brand new web site known as  NASA at Home that is stuffed with actions for younger and previous to discover the universe from home throughout these occasions of bodily distancing. Many dad and mom are struggling to maintain younger minds occupied throughout this prolonged home isolation, …

Governments have launched models with dire projections about how many individuals may die from COVID-19 to assist get folks onside with bodily distancing measures. But specialists warning models aren’t a crystal ball. On Friday, Ontario launched a mannequin projecting 3,000 to 15,000 folks in Ontario may die in a pandemic that …

As the COVID-19 pandemic has shuttered libraries and occasional retailers, some Toronto students are turning to an online trend to overcome the loneliness of learning by themselves.  It’s referred to as “Gong-bang,” brief for “gongbu bangsong” which interprets to “study broadcast” — and it is a rising trend that originated in South …