BRONX, New York, May 1 [Category: Environment] -- The Wildlife Conservation Society issued the following news release: * * * Asiatic Wild Ass Returns to Eastern Mongolia After 65-Year Absence * ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA, May 1, 2026 -The Asiatic wild ass, known locally as khulan ( Equus hemionus ), has returned to eastern Mongolia and is showing clear signs of re-establishing a population after more than 65 years of absence from the region. Findings published this Month in the journal Oryx show that khulan are now regularly present in multipl more PR

SANTA CRUZ, California, May 1 -- The University of California Santa Cruz campus issued the following news: * * * Dense rainforest canopy an acoustic 'information highway' for predator warnings * Key takeaways * This study found that the dense upper canopy of the Amazon rainforest works like a vast "eavesdropping network" where animals constantly listen for predator warnings. * When one animal senses danger, its alarm cry is quickly repeated by other species, including birds and primates. This behavior briefly links different species into  more PR

WASHINGTON, May 2 -- The Federal Reserve issued the following Fed Notes article: * * * Banks in the Age of Stablecoins: Lessons from Their Historical Responses to Financial Innovations Sam Hempel, JP Perez-Sangimino, and Jessie Jiaxu Wang/1 1. Introduction The expansion of stablecoins has moved digital payment tokens from the periphery of financial markets to the center of policy discussions. With a global market capitalization in the mid-hundreds of billions of dollars and annual settlement volumes in the trillions as of 2025, stablecoins more PR

ROLLA, Missouri, May 1 -- Missouri University of Science and Technology posted the following news: * * * Go with the flow: I&E Fellow hopes to solve water challenges * Effat Eskandari's research journey begins with a simple curiosity about something that most people take for granted: fresh water. Originally from Iran and now a Ph.D. candidate in geological engineering at Missouri S&T, she's built her academic path around understanding how water moves through and beneath the surface. As a Kummer I&E Doctoral Fellow, she studies how soil  more PR

ROLLA, Missouri, May 1 -- Missouri University of Science and Technology posted the following news: * * * Missouri S&T researchers identify carbon release risk tied to rising seas * Rising sea levels could do more than flood coastlines. Research from Missouri S&T shows they may also trigger the release of large amounts of carbon stored in coastal ecosystems into the atmosphere. "What's fascinating is that this process can become a self-reinforcing loop," says Suvrajit Ghosh, a geology and geophysics Ph.D. student at Missouri S&T. "Rising s more PR

BEIJING, China, April 28 (TNSjou) -- The Chinese Academy of Sciences posted the following news: * * * Researchers Reveal Extreme Drought Events in Southeastern Chinese Loess Plateau Editor: ZHANG Nannan Global warming intensifies the hydrological cycle, resulting in more frequent extreme climate events. Relative humidity (RH) is a core indicator of atmospheric aridity that regulates ecosystem functions, environmental quality, human health, and agricultural production. Therefore, reconstructing its historical evolution holds significant scie more PR

ROLLA, Missouri, May 1 -- Missouri University of Science and Technology posted the following news: * * * Supersonic success: S&T scholars sharpen wind tunnel simulations * Researchers at Missouri S&T have developed a more accurate way to predict conditions inside wind tunnels that are used to study how air behaves at speeds up to four times faster than the speed of sound, or over 3,000 miles per hour. "Traditional approaches to predicting conditions in supersonic wind tunnel tests have simplified the physics, so they haven't fully capture more PR