This story has been doing the rounds lately, but the research is available via Science Direct (publishing the Quaternary Science Reviews article). A team of University College of London… Read the rest “The Little Ice Age happened in part because of Europe reaching the New World.”
Science Alert lets us know that oceanographers have determined that the event that killed 70 percent of all land species and 96 percent of all marine species (not individuals – but… Read the rest “We now know what killed everything in Earth’s worst mass-extinction event.”
Nature repeats a warning you’ve probably heard a few times this week. Global warming is likely to make your beer more expensive, unless we do something:
… Read the rest “Climate change will be raising beer prices. (It’s the barley.)”Many studies have explored
Science News gets the answers on what suddenly killed 200,000 saiga antelopes in 2015:
… Read the rest “Here’s what killed all those antelopes on the steppes. It’s warmer now.”“If you come at dawn and dusk, it’s magical,” says E.J. Milner-Gulland, a conservation biologist
Science News has a series of studies that show rising CO2 levels and other climate disturbances are taking minerals and vitamins out of our vegetable crops:
… Read the rest “Climate change is stealing nutrients from food.”The idea that surging carbon
Earther has a nice look at a University of Virginia sound artist who’s turning shrinking glaciers into his musical instrument:
… Read the rest “Music from melting glaciers.”“We’re trying to create art, but it also has other possibilities,”
Nature gives us a much closer look not just at how much the ocean is rising, but where the levels will be changing most, using data from gravity-sensing satellites that show where ocean water… Read the rest “Where the oceans are rising.”
SONG: “Frozen Atmospheres”.
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SOURCE:Record-shattering 2.7-million-year-old ice core reveals start of the ice ages,” Science, 15 Aug 2017, as used… Read the rest “SONG: Frozen Atmospheres”
(Plural intended.) Science magazine looks back at lots of tiny, tiny pockets of the distant past – with a deep ice core that contains samples of our changing atmosphere for 2.7 million… Read the rest “2.7 million-year-old ice shatters records, reveals ancient atmospheres – and ice ages.”
Popular Science is trying to calm folks down following hyped-up reports that the seed vault (previously sung about here) containing precious samples of all our food crops was flooded:… Read the rest “OK – Svalbard is just fine.”
Sounds almost medieval, doesn’t it? But no, it’s not the vapors. BBC shows how dormant viruses and bacteria are waking up after centuries or even millennia under the ice:
… Read the rest “Melting permafrost is releasing ancient diseases.”In
Science Daily sniffs out how weather patterns affect the shape of our family’s noses:
… Read the rest “Our noses were shaped by the climate.”“We are interested in recent human evolution and what explains the evident variation
Science Daily reveals a simpler, cheaper way to get excess carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere – by converting it to carbon crystals:
… Read the rest “Newer, easier way to capture carbon from the atmosphere”Scientists at the Department of Energy’s
SONG: “Tiny Reindeer”.
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SOURCE: Reindeer are shrinking, because of warmer arctic temperatures ,” Science, 11 Dec 2016, as used in the post “Reindeer… Read the rest “SONG: “Tiny Reindeer””
Science reports on a reindeer study that’s been running a lot longer than this Christmas season. Researchers in the Arctic have found that reindeer have lost an average of 12% of their… Read the rest “Reindeer have been shrinking since 1994.”
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