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The decline in populations of large terrestrial herbivores (those weighing more than 100 kilos), especially in Africa and Asia, could significantly alter many ecosystems on the planet.

The artificial light that emanates at night from port facilities, ships and coastal cities and towns could be altering the composition of marine invertebrate communities, something that, over time, will end up having a marked effect on ocean ecosystems.

Nepal was surprised this past Saturday, April 25, with a great earthquake that today has a balance of more than 4,000 deaths. The earthquake, with a scale of 7.9 degrees on the Richter scale, would be the equivalent of the explosion of 32,000 atomic bombs on the same area.

Neonicotinoids are a type of pesticide that initially seemed like a complete revolution in modern chemistry and agriculture.

A team of scientists from the US Office of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has identified the second known specimen of the pocket shark, Mollisquama parini, a small deep-sea shark about which little is known.

Although scientists say there is only a one in 700,000 chance each year that it will erupt, the supervolcano that dozes in Yellowstone National Park in the United States is home to an enormous amount of magma. In fact, much more than previously believed, according to a study published by the journal Science.

This charismatic and fun character from The Muppets, the children's puppet series, has turned out to have a double in the real world, as the specimen of a new frog discovered in a Costa Rican jungle bears a striking resemblance to the character of the "Kermit the Frog". The finding has been published in the journal Zootaxa.

There is growing evidence that our planet is melting.