Taxi fleets in Thailand are giving new meaning to the term “rooftop garden,” as they utilize the roofs of cabs idled by the coronavirus crisis to serve as small vegetable plots. Workers from two taxi cooperatives assembled the miniature gardens this week using black plastic garbage bags stretched across bamboo […]
Researchers Toilet-Trained Cows in Hopes of Reducing Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions Researchers in Germany have potty trained cows, all in the name of science Cows are smart. “Why shouldn’t they be able to learn how to use a toilet?” Turns out cows can be potty trained as easily as toddlers. […]
China’s Zhejiang and Shanghai brace for Typhoon Chanthu East China’s Zhejiang Province and Shanghai have issued alerts for Typhoon Chanthu, which is expected to make landfall on Zhejiang’s coastal areas Monday (Sept 13). The Zhejiang provincial meteorological observatory issued a warning on Sunday saying that the 14th typhoon of the […]
Australian Ducks Show They Can Mimic Human Speech by Picking up Swearing: ‘You Bloody Fool!’ The first documented instance of ducks being able to mimic sounds has researchers reviewing the evolution of vocal language learning in birds. The musk duck is a highly aquatic, stiff-tailed duck native to southern Australia. […]
The world’s rainforests are under siege. Climate change has driven the average temperature of the Amazon rainforest up by as much as 1.5 degrees Celsius. As a result of higher temperatures and deforestation, drought has surged. In 2019 alone, tens of thousands of wildfires destroyed 2.24 million acres. Humans have […]