Recent News in Science & Nature

  
There have been a variety of interesting articles I've come across recently in science and nature news.
A while ago I posted an article about the threat to the glaciers in Glacier National Park, which may be gone within the next 10 years.  Recently two articles have highlighted threats to two other prominent parks: the Grand Canyon and Grand Teton National Park.  Click on the links to access their respective stories.

In other news about small things that make a big difference, reports continue to support fears that a spreading fungus infecting bats throughout the northeast threatens to bring a beneficial bat species to the brink in 20 years.  To read more, click here.  In the Gulf of Mexico, as many are relieved to hear of the BP well leak's recent remedy, there has been discovery of a new microbe that is actually eating oil.  To read about this new development, click here.

Finally, for those of us who as children worried about eating watermelon seeds or other vegetable and fruit seeds because they may someday sprout a plant in our bellies, this next article may be of concern.  A man who feared he may have a cancerous tumor in his lung was relieved to learn that it wasn't a tumor at all, but was then shocked to find that the mass in his lung was actually a pea that had sprouted!  The pea has since been removed and the man has been given "a whole new lease on life," which you can read about by clicking here.