Fossil leaves from Africa have resolved a prehistoric climate puzzle—and also confirm the link between carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and global warming.
Environment
Nov 14, 2017
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Late last month, a stratovolcano in Bali named Mount Agung began to smoke. Little earthquakes trembled beneath the mountain. Officials have since evacuated thousands of people to prevent what happened when Agung erupted in ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 13, 2017
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Concentration of carbon dioxide during an intense period of global warmth may have been as low as half the level previously suggested by scientists, according to a new Dartmouth College study.
Environment
Oct 12, 2017
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While burning coal today causes Earth to overheat, about 300 million years ago, the formation of coal brought the planet close to global glaciation. For the first time, scientists show the massive effect in a study to be ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 9, 2017
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To keep pace with the fast-evolving study of cellular plant science, an international team of researchers has created terminology and definitions likely to become everyday language in laboratories and university classrooms ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 3, 2017
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There could be some good news on the horizon as scientists try to understand the effects and processes related to climate change.
Earth Sciences
Aug 1, 2017
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Throughout the last 800,000 years, Antarctic temperatures and atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations have showed a similar evolution. However, they were different during the transition to the last ice age—approximately ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 7, 2017
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University of Adelaide researchers have constructed a marine food web to show how climate change could affect our future fish supplies and marine biodiversity.
Environment
Apr 27, 2017
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New research led by the University of Southampton suggests that, over the next 100 to 200 years, carbon dioxide concentrations in the Earth's atmosphere will head towards values not seen since the Triassic period, 200 million ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 4, 2017
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If human beings finally reach Mars, they may find themselves depending on the humble, if hardy potato.
Space Exploration
Mar 30, 2017
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