A team of geologists affiliated with multiple institutions in France, working with a colleague in Nepal, has found evidence of a massive rockslide occurring in a part of the Himalayas in the medieval era. In their study, ...
As the world warms, extreme weather events grow—and they also change. Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) found that climate change is shifting snowfall to rainfall ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 28, 2023
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Two-thirds of Europe's birds have moved to cooler areas over the last 30 years, mainly to the north and east by 100 kilometers on average. They are trying to find the conditions they are best suited to under global warming. ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 19, 2023
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Non-avian dinosaurs were probably in decline long before an asteroid smashing into the Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago sealed their fate, according to a University of Alberta paleontologist who says the ancient tale ...
Evolution
May 24, 2023
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Flying thousands of feet above the Sierra Nevada in a plane equipped with specialized imaging devices, Elizabeth Carey has been scanning the mountains with lasers to precisely map the snow.
Earth Sciences
May 16, 2023
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Africa is the world's most diverse continent for large mammals such as antelopes, zebras and elephants. The heaviest of these large mammals top the scales at over one ton, and are referred to as megafauna. In fact, it's the ...
Plants & Animals
May 3, 2023
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Microalgae in sediments signal what happened in the environment thousands of years ago, illuminating the range of future climate-change impacts.
Environment
Apr 27, 2023
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Sixty percent of the world's fresh water is bound up in Antarctic ice sheets. Thirty million cubic kilometers of ice is perhaps a difficult number to grasp. But if absolutely all Antarctica's ice melted, the seas would rise ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 4, 2023
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The United States is Earth's punching bag for nasty weather.
Environment
Apr 2, 2023
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Materials typically conduct electricity or insulate against it—so experimental and theoretical physicists have been captivated by a compound called samarium hexaboride (SmB6) that appears to do both. Numerous studies over ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 31, 2023
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