If radical action to reduce emissions isn't taken in the next decade or so, many of today's schoolchildren could live in a world that's 3℃ or 4℃ hotter by the time they enter their later years. Their working lives would ...
Education
Feb 25, 2020
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Coral reefs account for one-third of all biodiversity in the oceans and are vital to humanity. But long-standing human stressors including agricultural run-off and overfishing and more recent ocean warming from climate change ...
Environment
Feb 14, 2020
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Food and energy availability cause physical changes in acid-loving microorganisms that are used to study Earth's climate history, according to research from Dartmouth College.
Cell & Microbiology
Feb 10, 2020
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Researchers now have a clearer picture of the impact of the first plague pandemic, the Justinianic Plague, which lasted from about 541-750 CE.
Social Sciences
Dec 2, 2019
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Researchers from Carnegie Museum of Natural History and Michigan State University report plant specimens are being used in novel new ways that could influence future environmental policy, species conservation and collections-based ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 13, 2019
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A new discovery by University of Maine researchers that challenges the established volcanic source of particles found in an ice core from the South Pole adds to the global record of volcanism and is relevant to several ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 10, 2019
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A West Virginia University researcher used science and data to solve the timeless argument of nature versus nurture—at least when it comes to microorganisms.
Ecology
Sep 11, 2019
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Large wildfires in the Arctic and intense heat waves in Europe are just the latest evidence that climate change is becoming the defining event of our time. Unlike other periods that came and went, such as the 1960s or the ...
Environment
Aug 6, 2019
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Looking at the past may help the future when combating some viruses in humans, especially the evolutionary history of hantaviruses.
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 1, 2019
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A new collaborative study, led by the Natural History Museum and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, has extracted ancient DNA from the Neanderthal fossils of Gibraltar for the first time. The new study ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jul 16, 2019
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