Animals

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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Unlike most dairy cows in America, which are descended from just two bulls, this cow at Pennsylvania State University has a different ancestor: She is the daughter of a bull that lived decades ago, called University of Minnesota Cuthbert. The bull's froze

Science

Most U.S. Dairy Cows Are Descended From Just 2 Bulls. That's Not Good

6:59pm October 17, 2019

by Dan Charles

The drive to make more milk has had an unsavory side effect: Cows have become more genetically similar and less fertile. Scientists are trying to recover valuable genetic variation that was lost.

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Goldfish, like these showcased at Tokyo's Nihonbashi Art Aquarium, have been bred in China over centuries, into forms so varied and rare that one can be worth hundreds of dollars.

The Goldfish Tariff: Fancy Pet Fish Among The Stranger Casualties Of The Trade War

5:06am October 16, 2019

by Alina Selyukh

China is considered the motherland of aquarium goldfish, bred over centuries into rare forms. Now tariffs have some U.S. sellers of these goldfish in a tailspin.

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Swinomish tribal member Vernon Cayou gathers clams at Ala Spit County Park in Puget Sound.

Pacific Northwest Tribes Face Climate Change With Agricultural Ancient Practice

4:43pm October 15, 2019

by Eilis O'Neill

Washington state's Swinomish Tribe is building a clam garden in hopes of protecting their reservation from sea level rise. This aquatic garden will also provide a home for disappearing native clams.

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World News

Solving The Challenges To Counting Forest Elephants

8:35am October 13, 2019

by Dina Temple-Raston

Cornell University's Elephant Listening Project is using artificial intelligence and audio recorders in a bid to save forest elephants from poachers.

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"Holly" is the winner of this year's Fat Bear Week.

Sports

Stuffed With Sockeye Salmon, 'Holly' Wins 'Fat Bear Week' Heavyweight Title

10:30am October 09, 2019

by Tom Goldman

The annual competition is put on by Alaska's Katmai National Park & Preserve to choose the fattest bear. This year, Holly beat out Lefty in the championship round, winning more than 80% of the votes.