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    December 7, 2018
    A juvenile Hawaiian monk seal was found with a spotted eel in its nose at French Frigate Shoals in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands this past summer. NOAA Fisheries/Brittany Dolan.
    'Make better choices': Endangered Hawaiian monk seals keep getting eels stuck up their noses and scientists want them to stop
    A relaxed-looking juvenile Hawaiian monk seal lounges near a sandy white beach on some green foliage. Its eyes are half-closed and it has a serene...
    news/science-and-natureDecember 7, 2018 - 11:51am
    December 6, 2018
    Buckfast honey bees gather on a beehive in Merango, Ill., on Sept. 10, 2018. Bloomberg photo by Daniel Acker.
    World's first honey bee vaccine seeks to save dying pollinators
    A growing number of honey bees die each year due to pesticides, vanishing habitats, poor nutrition and climate change, with potentially disastrous...
    news/science-and-natureDecember 6, 2018 - 9:46am
    December 5, 2018
    Smokestacks and cooling towers emit smoke and water vapor at the RWE AG owned coal-fired power station Neurath near Bergheim, Germany. Bloomberg photo by Wolfgang von Brauchitsch
    'We are in trouble.' Global carbon emissions reached record high in 2018
    Global emissions of carbon dioxide have reached the highest levels on record, scientists projected Wednesday, in the latest evidence of the chasm...
    news/science-and-natureDecember 5, 2018 - 3:22pm
    November 30, 2018
    A map locating Anchorage, Alaska.
    'Major' damage after magnitude-7 earthquake in Alaska
    The Anchorage Police Department said there was "major infrastructure damage" across the city, which is home to more than 294,000 people.
    news/science-and-natureNovember 30, 2018 - 4:16pm
    November 26, 2018
    This image, taken at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colo., shows several of the critical landing systems of the InSight Mars lander, including the thrusters, lander legs and science deck. NASA/Lockheed Martin.
    'Flawless': NASA's InSight explorer lands safely on Mars
    The InSight lander, operated by NASA, was built by scientists in the U.S., France and Germany.
    news/science-and-natureNovember 26, 2018 - 8:41pm
    North Dakota Geological Survey paleontologists Clint Boyd, center, and Jeff Person, right, lead a fossil dig near Medora on July 12, 2017, with biology students from Century High School and Legacy High School. The popular program is expanding in 2019. Mike McCleary / Bismarck Tribune
    Popular North Dakota fossil dig program expands
    BISMARCK -- The North Dakota Geological Survey is continuing to expand its popular fossil dig program, which attracted people from 31 states...
    news/science-and-natureNovember 26, 2018 - 6:25am
    November 23, 2018
    President Donald Trump speaks with Gavin Newsom, left, California's governor-elect, as they toured fire-ravaged homes in Paradise, Calif., Nov. 17, 2018. As the death toll from California’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire continued to rise, Trump toured the area alongside two of his vocal critics. (Tom Brenner/Copyright 2018 The New York Times)
    Major Trump administration climate report says damages are 'intensifying across the country'
    Scientists are more certain than ever that climate change is already impacting the United States -- and that it is going to be very expensiv...
    news/science-and-natureNovember 23, 2018 - 3:37pm
    November 19, 2018
    A coyote is seen in this Forum News Service file photo.
    Coyote takes small dog in northwest Sioux Falls
    SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- A coyote took a small dog from a home on the northwest outskirts of Sioux Falls over the weekend causing the city’s animal...
    news/science-and-natureNovember 19, 2018 - 5:43pm
    Photo of a Wombat courtesy of Pexels.
    Scientists stuffed balloons into dead wombats to learn why they poop cubes
    Of all the adaptations that allow our animal brethren to soar through the air or endure the darkness and crushing pressure of the ocean's depths,...
    news/science-and-natureNovember 19, 2018 - 5:15pm
    Buffalo surround Gray Ghost, a dead stallion at Theodore Roosevelt National Park, and lick his legs in what an observer believes could have been a display of mourning. Tiffany Craigo / Special to Forum News Service
    Do bison grieve? ND buffalo gather around stallion and seem to mourn the horse’s death
    FARGO — Tiffany Craigo hiked to a remote valley in the craggy badlands of Theodore Roosevelt National Park to say her goodbyes to a stallion...
    news/science-and-natureNovember 19, 2018 - 11:33am
    November 17, 2018
    Marissa Saad, left, coordinator for NASA’s North Dakota Space Grant program, gathers participants in Saturday's weather balloons launch as they prepare for lift-off. Eric Hylden / Forum News Service
    North Dakota Space Grant holds annual Near-Space Balloon Competition
    GRAND FORKS — North Dakota students may have been cold as they braved single-digit temperatures on Saturday, Nov. 17, to launch a pair of large...
    news/science-and-natureNovember 17, 2018 - 1:00pm
    November 15, 2018
    A rare two-headed copperhead that was found in late September in a Virginia yard has died. MUST CREDIT: JD Kleopfer
    Rare two-headed snake found in Virginia has died
    WASHINGTON - A rare, two-headed snake that was found a few months ago in a suburban Virginia yard has died. Experts said it wasn't immediately...
    news/science-and-natureNovember 15, 2018 - 11:47am
    November 14, 2018
    A drunk raccoon in Milton, W.Va. MUST CREDIT: Photo handout from Milton Police Department
    Raccoons drunk on crab apples cause false rabies scare in West Virginia
    Police in Milton, W. Va., had calls about suspicious-acting raccoons twice in as many days.
    news/science-and-natureNovember 14, 2018 - 7:35pm
    Forum News Service file photo of wheat harvest near Harwood, N.D.
    Arid West encroaches on humid East, slowly changing the region’s farming
    FARGO — On a drive west from Fargo, a motorist can see the scenery outside the window change and not just from flat plains to rolling hills,...
    news/science-and-natureNovember 14, 2018 - 6:00am
    November 12, 2018
    The Woolsey Fire burns above Malibu, Calif., on Nov. 10. Photo for The Washington Post by Kyle Grillot
    Paradise has burned to the ground, and officials now try to pick up the pieces
    More than two dozen residents of the retirement community burned to death in cars, in homes, and on foot; more than 200 people still unaccounted...
    news/science-and-natureNovember 12, 2018 - 9:16pm
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