Wildfires kill condor chick
California’s rampant wildfires have claimed an icon of conservation biology: a condor chick burned in its nest at Big Sur, on the Pacific coast. Wildlife biologists had enough warning to arrange a helicopter airlift for eight captive-bred adult condors awaiting release from holding cages in the same area.
Satellite clean-up
Space junk may sit in orbit longer than we hoped. Solar storms clear out debris in low-Earth orbit by heating up the atmosphere so it drags junk down. Yet many forecasters think the next solar cycle will be pretty tranquil. If true, thousands more fragments than…
