Jude Coleman

2 days ago | nautil.us | Jude Coleman

Every year, the illegal wildlife trade ensnares millions of wild birds in a vast global industry. Poaching for the black market affects a huge diversity of life, including nearly half of all bird species. Songbirds and parrots are particularly popular targets, with thousands illegally caught and traded every year. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . But proving that a bird sold as a pet was poached from the wild, rather than born in captivity, is difficult.

1 week ago | nautil.us | Jude Coleman

This article originally appeared in  Knowable Magazine. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Like giant bones planted in the earth, clusters of tree trunks, stripped clean of bark, are appearing along the Chesapeake Bay on the United States’ mid-Atlantic coast. They are ghost forests: the haunting remains of what were once stands of cedar and pine. Since the late 19th century, an ever-widening swath of these trees has died along the shore.

2 weeks ago | yaleclimateconnections.org | Jude Coleman

Like giant bones planted in the earth, clusters of tree trunks, stripped clean of bark, are appearing along the Chesapeake Bay on the United States’ mid-Atlantic coast. They are ghost forests: the haunting remains of what were once stands of cedar and pine. Since the late 19th century, an ever-widening swath of these trees have died along the shore. And they won’t be growing back.

2 weeks ago | sciencenews.org | Jude Coleman

A new way of generating clean power could run your lights with rain. Hydropower typically relies on the movement of water to create electricity through mechanical energy, such as spinning turbines in a dam. But a new method, described April 16 in ACS Central Science, skips the mechanics and harnesses tiny bursts of energy sparked when rain plunks into a narrow tube. “There is a lot of energy in rain,” says Siowling Soh, an engineer at the National University of Singapore.

2 weeks ago | livescience.com | Jude Coleman

Like giant bones planted in the earth, clusters of tree trunks, stripped clean of bark, are appearing along the Chesapeake Bay on the United States' mid-Atlantic coast. They are ghost forests: the haunting remains of what were once stands of cedar and pine. Since the late 19th century, an ever-widening swath of these trees have died along the shore. And they won't be growing back.