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Early Plants Linked to Ancient Ice Ages
The first plants to appear on earth 470 million years ago triggered a series of ice ages by causing...
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Barley Adapts to Climate Change
The upsurge in droughts is one of the main consequences of climate change, and affects crops in particular. However,...
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Global Warming Would Harm Some Areas, Help Others
“Global warming” and “climate change” succinctly describe a complicated phenomenon, and in just a few decades they have become...
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Fracking Would Emit Large Quantities of Greenhouse Gases
Add methane emissions to the growing list of environmental risks posed by fracking. Opposition to the hydraulic fracturing of...
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Not By Asteroid Alone: Rethinking the Cretaceous Mass Extinction
At the end of the Cretaceous period some 65 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula,...
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Rainforest in Transition: Is the Amazon Transforming before Our Eyes?
The Amazon rainforest is in flux, thanks to agricultural expansion and climate change. In other words, humans have “become...
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Flu Pandemics Linked to Ocean’s Cooling Cycle
Flu pandemics have been linked to fluctuations in climate, and new research connects the world’s four most recent pandemics...
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Evolution Defenders to Fight Climate Skeptics
A national organization best known for its defense of teaching evolution has added climate change to its agenda in...
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Climate Change Skepticism Seeps into Science Classrooms
A flash point has emerged in American science education that echoes the battle over evolution, as scientists and educators...