Mummified Cheetahs Discovered in Saudi Arabia Show How the Country Could Bring The Cats Back

Mummified Cheetahs Discovered in Saudi Arabia Show How the Country Could Bring The Cats Back

– Credit: National Center for Wildlife – Saudi Arabia Between 2022 and 2023, scientists in Saudi Arabia began a survey of over 1,000 caves, hoping to find preserved remains of ancient animals to infer modern rewilding strategies. Whatever modest results they might have allowed themselves to hope for, they almost certainly would not have expected … Read more

Hungary’s Famous Thermal Baths Are Saving the Country’s Famous Grasslands from Desertification

Hungary’s Famous Thermal Baths Are Saving the Country’s Famous Grasslands from Desertification

Wells in the Hortobágy National Park Puszta, with a stable – credit Self2 CC 2.0., via Wikimedia Drought is affecting the Great Hungarian Plain like never before, but a team of concerned citizens have hatched a clever plan to address it in the short term. It’s arguable what the Eastern European country is more famous … Read more

Ultrasonic Device Dramatically Speeds Harvesting of Water from the Air – Drinkable in Minutes Instead of Hours

Ultrasonic Device Dramatically Speeds Harvesting of Water from the Air – Drinkable in Minutes Instead of Hours

Device uses ultrasonic waves to harvest water 45x faster – Credit: Ikra Iftekhar / MIT (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) Even in desert conditions, there exists some level of humidity that, with the right material, can be soaked up and squeezed out to produce clean drinking water. In recent years, scientists have developed a host of promising … Read more