Going to the zoo as a kid is one my fondest memories but I never thought of how these animals were brought here.Zoos apparently date back to as far as 3500 BC as excavations at Hierakonopolis in Egypt have revealed. Remains of animals including elephants, baboons, wildcats, and hartebeest were…
Coal remains at the nucleus of China’s flourishing economy. In 2019, 58 percent of the country’s total energy consumption came from coal, which helps explain why China accounts for 28 percent of all global CO2 emissions roughly the same as the next three biggest emitters combined: the United States, the…
The vaquita is a bathtub-sized porpoise with silvery-gray skin and panda-like eyes that is found exclusively in the Upper Gulf of California in Mexico, It wasn’t discovered until 1958 by University of California scientist Kenneth Norris and a little over half a century later, we are on the brink of…
