Mississippi landowners restored woodland for gopher tortoises; two decades later the same habitat became a release site for nearly 500 endangered frogs

The gopher tortoise is a land-dwelling reptile native to the southeastern United States that digs deep burrows used by hundreds of other animals. More than two decades after two Mississippi landowners began restoring their land to help an endangered tortoise, their work has now created a new home for one of North America’s rarest amphibians….

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Meet Seth Nabat, the 18-year-old California student who built a two-network machine-learning system to track particle collisions; he won $40,000

Seth NabatPhoto: Society for Science Every year, nearly 1,900 of the nation’s most promising high school seniors submit original research to the Regeneron Science Talent Search (Regeneron STS), the oldest and most prestigious science and mathematics competition in the United States. According to the Society for Science, which runs the competition, the Regeneron STS recognises…

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Photography To Protect Endangered Species: In 2006, Joel Sartore began photographing one animal at a time; 18,000 species later, his Photo Ark has become a global conservation movement fighting to save wildlife from extinction

Joel Sartore started the project with a simple but powerful idea: to photograph animals one species at a time, creating a visual record before they are gone. (Image: Instagram/joelsartore) In a world where species can disappear before most people even know they exist, photographer Joel Sartore has spent two decades making sure wildlife is seen….

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‘Earning billions’: How fuel exporters in India, US are benefitting from war-led oil supply disruptions

Analysts and traders aid refiners in both countries are likely to continue earning billions of dollars from stronger exports. (Representative image) With global fuel supplies disrupted due to the Middle East crisis and Russia-Ukraine war, refiners in India and the US have emerged as beneficiaries. Oil refiners in the two countries are benefitting significantly as…

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Quote of the day by Jane Goodall: “Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual…” |

Jane Goodall spent decades studying chimpanzees in the wild before becoming one of the world’s most recognisable voices for wildlife conservation and environmental protection. Her work changed how scientists understood chimpanzee behaviour and helped demonstrate the importance of protecting animals and their habitats. One of her most widely shared messages is simple: “Every individual matters….

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Russia Fuel Imports: Russia turns to Asia for refined fuel, set to receive nearly 270,000 tonnes in August

File photo: Moscow pumps face queues amid fuel shortages (Picture credit: Reuters) Russia is importing nearly 270,000 metric tonnes of refined fuel from Asia this month, using ship-to-ship transfers to bring in supplies as repeated Ukrainian attacks on its oil refineries reduce domestic fuel production, according to preliminary shipping data and trade sources cited by…

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CERN, where scientists smash particles at nearly the speed of light, has a 2-metre Shiva Nataraja statue outside; why India gifted the cosmic dancer to the physics lab in 2004

Lord Shiva Statue Unveiled (CERN official) For those who don’t know, CERN is Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Council for Nuclear Research). It is the world’s largest particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland (near Franco-Swiss border). It is the lab where scientists accelerate particles to almost the speed of light. But beyond this…

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