Animals

Sports

Animal Shelter Names Dogs After Nationals As Team Prepares For World Series Game 3

5:37pm October 25, 2019

Just in time for Game 3 of the World Series between the Washington Nationals and the Houston Astros, a Washington, D.C., animal shelter is giving away dogs named after Washington players.

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Elephants approach a road at Liwonde. Reid says the park hasn't lost a single high-value animal in 30 months.

World News

Elephants Under Attack Have An Unlikely Ally: Artificial Intelligence

1:14pm October 25, 2019

by Dina Temple-Raston

Conservationists are deploying audio recorders, neural networks and predictive analytics in a bid to save elephants from extinction.

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Snorkeling Grandmothers Find Venomous Sea Snakes

5:50am October 25, 2019

A group of citizen scientists calling themselves the "fantastic grandmothers" are helping a researchers capture photos and videos of the greater sea snake, near the territory of New Caledonia.

A mix of barley, peas and flax grows in a field at Casey Bailey's farm near Fort Benton, Mont. Bailey sells this crop to Montana dairy farmer Nate Brown, who has been feeding it to his goats.

Environment

Diversifying Crops Is Good For The Planet. But Can It Be Good For Farmers' Wallets?

1:50pm October 23, 2019

by Rachel Cernansky

Fertilizer runoff is fueling the toxic algae bloom in the Gulf of Mexico. Farmers could help by growing crops in rotation to reduce the need for fertilizer. But it's unclear who will buy them.

Scientists Taught Rats How To Drive Tiny Cars

6:18am October 23, 2019

Researchers at the University of Richmond taught rats steering maneuvers, and then gave them Froot Loops as a reward. It worked. The rats are brilliant drivers.

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World's Loudest Bird Could Cause Hearing Damage To Humans

7:02am October 22, 2019

According to a new study in Current Biology, the male white bellbird when singing its mating call produces the loudest bird song. The bird lives in the mountains of the Amazon rainforest.

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Horses Have Continued To Die As New Season Begins At Santa Anita Park

6:56pm October 21, 2019

by Ben Bergman

The Santa Anita race track near Los Angeles is preparing for the high profile Breeders' Cup next month. But horse deaths have continued this season, despite government investigations.

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Unusual Radar Activity Discovered At Minnesota Wildlife Refuge

6:59am October 21, 2019

Meteorologists got worried after they spotted a radar pattern at the Rice Lake National Wildlife Refuge. Radar picked up 600,000 ducks that had been disturbed by people in airboats on the lake.

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Environment

Tackling Low Oxygen In An Oregon Lake

7:59am October 20, 2019

by Jes Burns

As the climate warms, many U.S. lakes are seeing more algal blooms, low oxygen levels and stressed-out fish species. One research team in Oregon hopes that pumping oxygen into the water can help.

Trapper Joins Alligator In The Pool

5:12am October 18, 2019

Paul Bedard traps alligators in Florida. He got a call about a gator lounging in someone's pool. Bedard says he played with it until the gator got sleepy and he could pull it out of the pool.

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