In the 1800s, passenger pigeons darkened the skies with giant flocks. Then millions of birds disappeared in less than a century

The taxidermied body of the last captive passenger pigeon, named passengar pigeon, is in the care of the Smithsonian ...
ZME Science

Cape Town Nearly Became the First Major City to Run Out of Water. The Next Day Zero Could Now Happen Anywhere

Cape Town residents queue to collect drinking water from a mountain spring collection point last month. Photograph: Nic Bothma/EPA. When Doctor Anthony Turton, a South African-bor ...
Agro Spectrum India on MSN

New World screwworm exposes weakest links in global livestock biosecurity

FAO’s Thanawat Tiensin explains how climate variability, animal movement, underfunded veterinary systems and evolving pest dynamics are reshaping the global biosecurity challenge ...