By the time Hurricane Ida hit Philadelphia in early September, it had already dropped massive rainfall on parts of the Gulf Coast. As the storm continued north, record-breaking downpours in New York City led to extensive ...
Environment
Sep 22, 2021
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Firefighting crews near southern Spain's Costa del Sol were hoping for much-needed rainfall Monday to help them extinguish a major wildfire that has ravaged 7,700 hectares (19,000 acres) in five days and forced the evacuations ...
Environment
Sep 13, 2021
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Scientists say it is extremely challenging to try and predict when a supervolcano might erupt again due to the sheer diversity of events that have gone before.
Earth Sciences
Jul 27, 2021
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Pioneering research has shown marine ecosystems can start working again, providing important functions for humans, after being wiped out much sooner than their return to peak biodiversity.
Evolution
Jun 23, 2021
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A rock core from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, has given scientists a powerful new tool to understand how catastrophic events shaped Earth's ecosystems before the rise of the dinosaurs.
Earth Sciences
Jul 20, 2020
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What will be the normal way of urban living when the COVID-19 crisis passes? What aspects will remain with us and what will disappear?
Environment
Jul 20, 2020
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A new study by the University of Leeds and University of Oxford has examined spatial biodiversity patterns across the Permo-Triassic mass extinction event. (c. 252 million years ago). The Permo-Triassic mass extinction represents ...
Ecology
Jun 17, 2020
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Flooding from torrential rains caused by cyclones and monsoonal storms, as well as other catastrophic events, are responsible for moving huge amounts of fresh wood to a watery grave deep under the ocean, according to Earth ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 21, 2019
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Like modern humans and primates, Neanderthals—our closest evolutionary cousins—are thought to have lived in groups, but their size and composition have been difficult to infer from archeological and fossil remains.
Archaeology
Sep 10, 2019
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On April 26, 1986, the Soviet Union's Chernobyl Power Complex nuclear reactor 4 exploded.
Other
Aug 16, 2019
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