The ships took shelter from Antarctica’s winters in places such as New Zealand and Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania), and also visited the numerous tiny islands around Antarctica. These included Kerguelen ...

For the first time, researchers mapped more than 300,000 plant species known to science and found that 21%, or 63,280 species, were endemic to islands, meaning they have not been found in the wild ...

Seventeen new species of plant bugs—a group of insects with a strawlike mouth used to feed on plant and animal matter—have ...

THREE MILE ISLAND, Pennsylvania (Reuters) - Giant cooling towers at Constellation Energy's Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania have sat dormant for so long that grass has sprung up in ...

More than 20 per cent of plant species are found only on islands – and time is running out to save them. Islands have long intrigued explorers and scientists. These isolated environments serve as ...

A study in Nature reveals that islands, covering just 5.3% of the planet's land, harbor 21% of the world's plant biodiversity. Urgent conservation action is needed as island plants face extinction ...

"It's still eerie walking in here and it's, just, quiet," Constellation regulatory assurance manager Craig Smith said during a tour of the plant last week. Smith, who worked at Three Mile Island ...

Giant cooling towers at Constellation Energy's CEG.OThree Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania have sat dormant for so long that grass has sprung up in the towers' hollowed-out bases and ...

Of these, 63,280 or 21 per cent only occur on islands, it found. The study assumes importance since island plants are at higher risk of extinction than those on the mainland. Peru dismantles over ...

Every nuclear plant has its own; workers can’t simply be transferred from other locations. By January 2024, Dominguez was ready to shop Three Mile Island to a few corporate clients. Competition ...