Florida officials, in collaboration with scientists, have planted 15,000 milkweed plants along northern Florida roadsides as part of a conservation effort to create feeding and breeding areas for declining monarch butterfly populations and other pollinators.
A new study challenges the long-held belief that early tetrapods, which transitioned to land over 300 million years ago, had an amphibian-like life cycle with a tadpole stage. Researchers examined fossils of embolomers and other ancient lineages, finding evidence of direct development without metamorphosis, suggesting amphibian metamorphosis may be a later evolutionary innovation.
Juan Arredondo's project 'The Uncounted' highlights the global issue of missing birth and death records, affecting public health and individual rights, with nearly half of deaths and 25% of births unrecorded worldwide.
China has announced that it now has the capacity to build up to 50 nuclear reactors simultaneously, as it doubles down on a push to rapidly expand its nuclear power generation and become a global leader in the sector. The figure came from a report released by the China Nuclear Energy Association (CNEA) on Friday, which highlights the country’s ability to run dozens of nuclear projects concurrently spanning the full project life cycle – from design to construction. “China’s nuclear technology...
