The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that without a substantial decrease in our use of fossil fuels, we are on track for a global average increase of 2°C in the next few decades, ...
Environment
Feb 25, 2020
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In a new paper, climate scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution propose that massive amounts of melting sea ice in the Arctic drained into the North Atlantic and disrupted ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 20, 2020
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Many of us think about pollen only when allergy season is upon us.
Plants & Animals
Oct 28, 2019
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The last woolly mammoths lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean; they died out 4,000 years ago within a very short time. An international research team from the Universities of Helsinki and Tübingen and the Russian ...
Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 07, 2019
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When climates change, plants and animals often are forced to colonize new areas—or possibly go extinct. Because the climate is currently changing, biologists are keenly interested in predicting how climate-induced migrations ...
Ecology
Aug 29, 2019
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Reindeer are incredibly hardy creatures—they survived the last Ice Age and today live in some of the world's most inhospitable landscapes. Despite their fine-tuned adaptations to life in the Arctic and after over 600,000 ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 06, 2019
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Modern hyenas are known as hunters and scavengers in Asian and African ecosystems such as the savanna.
Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 18, 2019
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By using marine sediment cores from northwestern Australia, a Japanese team led by National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) and the University of Tokyo revealed that the global ice sheet during the last ice age had changed ...
Earth Sciences
May 15, 2019
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A wave of migrants from what is now Greece and Turkey arrived in Britain some 6,000 years ago and virtually replaced the existing hunter-gatherer population, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature.
Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 15, 2019
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During the last ice age, which peaked around 21,500 years ago, glaciers covered large portions of North America, including the entire Great Lakes region. Once the ice retreated, the land was gradually repopulated by trees ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 08, 2019
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