Our climate change crisis - Science News
WebMar 10, 2022 · The climate change emergency. Even in a world increasingly battered by weather extremes, the summer 2021 heat wave in the Pacific Northwest stood out. For several days in late June, cities such as ...
Here’s where Earth stores its carbon - Science News
WebOct 1, 2019 · The vast majority of Earth’s carbon is stored inside the planet, with a whopping 1.845 billion billion metric tons in the mantle and crust, and a meager 43,500 billion tons above the surface. E ...
How Homo sapiens became world’s dominant species - Science …
WebMay 31, 2015 · How Homo sapiens became world’s dominant species. ADAM OR EVE The new miniseries First Peoples tells the story of how humans emerged in Africa and went on to colonize the rest of the world ...
Tuskless elephants became common as an evolutionary response …
WebOct 21, 2021 · After poachers tore through a Mozambican elephant population, tuskless females tripled in number as humans altered the species’s evolutionary trajectory.
Why won’t this debate about an ancient cold snap die? - Science …
WebJun 26, 2018 · The cold snap lasted only about 1,200 years — a mere blip, in geologic time. Then, just as abruptly, Earth began to warm again. But many of the giant mammals were dying out. And the Clovis ...
What made the last century’s great innovations possible? - Science …
WebMarch 18, 2022 at 7:00 am. In the early decades of the 20th century, a slew of technologies began altering daily life with seemingly unprecedented speed and breadth. Suddenly, consumers could ...
How past disasters can help us prepare for the future - Science News
WebMar 25, 2018 · The Big Ones Lucy Jones Doubleday, $26.95. People call Lucy Jones the “earthquake lady.” For nearly 40 years, Jones, a seismologist, has been a leading voice in California on earthquake ...
Hurricanes are getting more dangerous, but may not be more …
WebJul 13, 2021 · Hurricanes may not be becoming more frequent, but they’re still more dangerous. There aren’t more of the storms now than there were roughly 150 years ago, a study suggests. Hurricane Iota ...
Why the 2024 total solar eclipse will be such a big deal - Science …
WebJanuary 4, 2024 at 11:00 am. Solar eclipses are dramatic events as a rule. But the total eclipse coming on April 8 is going to ratchet up the experience. Compared with the last total eclipse that ...
Gene-editing tool CRISPR wins the chemistry Nobel - Science News
WebOctober 7, 2020 at 7:12 am. Updated October 7, 2020 at 11:55 am. Turning a bacterial defense mechanism into one of the most powerful tools in genetics has earned Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle ...
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