Nature and Science News
Learn about your naural world and who calls it home
Nature and Science News
Learn about your naural world and who calls it home
Curious about nature and science
Read about the latest science and nature news, along with fascinating health discoveries. From wildlife stories to how to cure a cold, Nature and Science News is for everyone with a curious mind.
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Learn about Nature with Nature Tails Books!
Nature Tails a children's rhyming picture book. The book chronicles the adventures of a little girl as she explores a whole other world in her backyard. All the wildlife she meets reminds her that we are always connected to nature. The book has fun, colorful illustrations and is simple for early readers.
Baby Bird Season
A hatchling is a baby bird that hatches from an egg. They usually don't have feathers, and their eyes are closed. They usually don't have feathers, and their eyes are closed. A fledgling has its first feathers and can move on its own. Their feet can grip a branch, and they have feathers. This bird will leave the nest and learn how to survive without its parents.
Deadly Environmental Disaster!
Ohio
Wildlife sounds and sites are now gone from this once vibrant community in Ohio. The East Palestine chemical train disaster is an environmental and lethal fallout from the Norfolk Southern rail company's chemical bomb train derailment and then fire. A dozen train cars carrying toxic chemicals, including vinyl chloride, derailed on the evening of February 3. These VOCs or volatile toxic chemicals are contaminating people's homes, the soil and water with water PH reading 9.9. They have already wiped out thousands of fish and contaminated the water. After the derailment, authorities set up a controlled burn. The byproduct of the fire is hydrogen chloride, which almost instantly grabs water molecules from the atmosphere, creating hydrochloric acid. #environmental #ohio #chemicalspill
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Our oceans
The ocean is still a beautiful mystery and so are the creatures that call it home. Take the by-the-wind sailor (Velella vellela), a jellyfish-like animal that skims across the ocean surface. You might have seen one but thought it was plastic. Many marine creatures resemble plastics and that’s a problem for animals that consume seafood. Plus it’s a battle for those that are cleaning the plastics from our oceans.
Great News 2022
2022 Update
On December 19, 2022– the UN Development Program welcomed the historic agreement reached at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity today to agree a new plan to preserve and protect nature with the new Global Biodiversity. https://www.undp.org/events/cop15-un-biodiversity-conference
Latest Environmental News Nov/Dec 2022
2022 Update
Hibernation is a way for wildlife to survive cold winters without having to search for food. They slow their metabolisms to save energy. What do anphibians do all winter? Well, frogs and toads change their behavior in October. They hop under logs or inside a hole in the ground.
Latest Environmental News October 2022
October 2022 Update
In early October, millions of monarch butterflies make the 2,500-mile trek south to Mexico, where they live in hibernation for six to eight months. Then, in February and March, the entire cycle starts again. The monarch butterfly is one of only a few insects that migrate to a warmer climate. While most monarchs fly to the fir tree forests just west of Mexico City, the ones that live in the northwest U.S. migrate to Pacific Grove, California, and the ones that make their home in New England go to Florida. The monarch caterpillars’ main source of food is the milkweed plant, and there is less and less being grown.
Another threat to the monarch is the loss of their winter home in Mexico. Many acres of Oyamel trees in Mexico are being cut down by illegal harvesting of the forest.
Latest Environmental News September 2022
September 2022 Update
Why are wasps so aggressive in the fall? The wasp life cycle is the reason for the anger. Queen wasps begin laying eggs in the spring. During the summer, the queen lays and fertilizes as many eggs as she can to grow the wasp colony. The colony's numbers peak in the fall. The adult wasps care for the larvae during the summer, feeding them insects, and in return, the larvae produce a sweet substance for the adults to enjoy. This is how the adult wasps get their food. In the fall, the queen stops laying eggs, so the adults lose their sweet meal. The wasps go on the hunt for another meal. This is why the wasps want to hang around the yard, bugging you for your drinks and food. #insects #nature #environmentnews #wasps
Latest Environmental News August 2022
August 2022 Update
The ruby-throated hummingbirds will be visiting your feeders and flowers the next couple weeks. Adult male ruby-throats move by late July and early August; while most female and young ruby-throats leave two to four weeks later.
“Although there are differing views in the birding community as to what triggers the start of fall migration, it is generally thought that hummingbirds sense changes in daylight duration, and declining numbers of flowers, nectar and insects,” explained Hummingbird Central.
#lamascale #nature #hummingbirds
Latest Environmental News July 2022
July 2022 Monarch butterflies are now on endangered red list
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has added the migrating monarch butterfly to its "red list," categorized as an endangered species—two steps from extinct. The monarch's native population has shrunk by between 20% and 70% over the past decade. Its decline is primarily due to climate change, deforestation, habitat loss, and pesticide use, which kills the milkweed on which monarch butterflies feed. #monarchbutterfly
Latest Environmental News June 2022
June 2022 Sea turtle numbers on the rise!
Sea turtle numbers are rising! This is wonderful news for our little green friends. Researchers at Mote Marine Laboratory in Florida say this is the 7th most successful nesting season they've seen on the beaches in decades. They have counted 2,713 loggerhead sea turtle nests and more than 40 green sea turtle nests, along with one Kemp’s ridley sea turtle nest. The sea turtle nesting season goes from May 1 until Oct. 31, so their numbers could climb to 3,000 nests before the end of the season. The rise in their numbers is due to endless conservation work. This means sea turtles are moving from endangered species to threatened. #seaturtles #nature #marineanimals
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OSM22 conference
LAMA is proud to announce our abstract for Ocean Science Meeting 2022 was accepted. We presented the land, atmosphere, marine assessment scale to ocean specialists from over 75 different countries.