Newly discovered coral reef at Amazon River mouth already under threat from oil drilling and other top stories.

• Newly discovered coral reef at Amazon River mouth already under threat from oil drilling

  

  Scientists have discovered a colorful coral reef ecosystem at the place where it is not supposed to grow - near the mouth of the Amazon River. The newly discovered coral reef is around 3,700 square miles. The discovery mentioned in the journal Science could shed light on how coral reefs might survive in less than ideal conditions. Generally, corals thrive in clear waters along tropical shelves. Amazon like river systems are thought to create gaps where they do not grow therefore it was shocking..

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• Study: Dinosaurs were declining long before asteroid hit

  

  FILE - In this Nov. 29, 1954, file photo, workers use block and tackle to move the skeleton of one of four dinosaurs in the Cretaceous Hall of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Dinosaurs died out rather abruptly some 66 million years ago.

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• Earth Day draws attention to ecological standing of planet, astronomical effects

  

  By Emily Faerber The world celebrated our beautiful planet Earth April 22. But how did this day come to orbit? The idea for Earth Day developed back in 1962 when then Wisconsin Senator, Gaylord Nelson, sought to bring the state of our environment into the political realm. In fact, Senator Nelson spoke about environmental issues to a variety of audiences across America for several years, which eventually led him to the idea of “Earth Day.” At this time, anti-Vietnam War demonstrations had spread ..

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• Kepler Spacecraft resumes K2 mission after coming out of Emergency Mode

  

  The Kepler space telescope is back on its job of the K2 mission, which is to lookout for exoplanets, the planets beyond our solar system. By 8.30am PDT today, the spacecraft was performing the tasks allocated to it and the team informed that everything was working perfect with Kepler space telescope. Late Tuesday, the team started the process of returning the spacecraft to science. The recovering process involved a number of steps that were taken during the next two days. The pointing tables an..

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• Ashes from 'nearby' supernova explosion 2.3 mn years ago, still raining on Earth

  

  It’s still raining ashes on Earth. A team of scientists has found that majority of cosmic rays raining on earth today were sent by a nearby supernova about 2.3 million years ago. Traces of 60Fe detected in space indicate that a nearby supernova occurred within the last few million years. The iron isotope 60Fe, which is very rare, is created when a massive star collapses in the form of supernova. Walter Binns et al. detected 60Fe in cosmic rays flying through space, revealing that the contents o..

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• New Horizons Spots Massive Craters on Pluto With Bright Halo

  

  Many craters on Pluto have bright halo effects in the western side of the planet, according to the latest shared images by NASA’s New Horizons team. New Horizons has spotted many unique craters with a halo effect in the Vega Terra region on Pluto. The craters with bright halo effect are quite big in size, some of them even 30 miles across, according to NASA report. NASA team said that the bright hued craters seemed like spread across the dark region on Pluto. New Horizons has shared many amazin..

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