Dinosaurs’ ascent driven by volcanoes powering climate change
The rise of dinosaurs coincided with environmental changes driven by major volcanic eruptions over 230 million years ago, a new study reveals.
Geologists solve half-century-old mystery of animal traces in ancient rocks
Geologists have been baffled by perforations in an Australian quartzite (rock), identical in shape to burrows made in sands by crustaceans; the original sandy...
N95 respirators could offer robust protection from wildfire smoke
N95 respirators offer the best protection against wildfire smoke and other types of air pollution, performing better than synthetic, cotton and surgical masks. N95s...
Crayfish get more interesting at bigger parties
In many North American lakes, a tiny clawed creature has become a big bully. The invasive rusty crayfish roams lakebeds, snapping up snails, bivalves,...
Reducing tropical cyclone impacts: The double benefit of climate protection through both limiting and...
Increasing global warming from currently one to two degrees Celsius by mid-century might lead to about 25 percent more people put at risk by...
Answering a century-old question on the origins of life
The missing link isn't a not-yet-discovered fossil, after all. It's a tiny, self-replicating globule called a coacervate droplet, developed by researchers to represent the...
Hyena scavenging provides public health and economic benefits to African cities
Hyenas are frequently vilified and often feared. Hemingway once described the hyena as a stinking, foul devourer of the dead, with jaws that crack...
Thinning moderates forest fire behavior even without prescribed burns – for a while
Mechanical thinning alone can calm the intensity of future wildfires for many years, and prescribed burns lengthen thinning's effectiveness.
25-million-year-old ancient eagle ruled the roost in Australia
A 25-million-year-old eagle fossil found in South Australia adds to the long evolutionary history of raptors in Australia.
Prioritizing forestation based on biogeochemical and local biogeophysical impacts
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 27 September 2021; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01161-zForests take up carbon from the atmosphere but also change Earth’s surface energy balance through biophysical...
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The extremely rare cave-dwelling albino fish with no eyes, the Mexican blindcat, has previously only been known to exist in Mexico.
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