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485 million years of data: Study tracks global temperature and CO2 link
By Bobby Bascomb From the first birds and fish to pine trees, dinosaurs, woolly mammoths and humans, most life on Earth has ...
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Trying to build a more climate-resilient Chicago, one balloon at a time
Data collected by weather balloons in various Chicago neighborhoods should help scientists better understand extreme heat in the city.
Exoplanets could be hiding their atmospheres
Most of the exoplanets we've discovered orbit red dwarf stars. This isn't because red dwarfs are somehow special, simply that ...
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Drinking wastewater, building an island from scratch and creating an urban forest: 3 bold ways cities are already adapting to climate change
Climate change will fundamentally challenge the world's urban centers. Three cities — San Diego, Milan and Jakarta — offer ...
As coral reefs face unprecedented heat, scientists experiment with new ways to protect them
In Puerto Rico and other hard-hit places, marine researchers are trying to restore reefs and make corals more resilient — with some recent success.
Extreme temperatures may contribute to thousands of additional deaths in the US
By 2065, researchers predict that deaths from extreme temperatures could reach 19,300 in the lower greenhouse gas emissions ...
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How is Austin’s Big Stacy Pool naturally heated?
Big Stacy is nestled in the Travis Heights neighborhood, less than a mile from Travis Heights Elementary School. The six-lane ...
New study takes the Earth’s temperature over a half-billion years
The results, which the researchers call PhanDA, estimate global temperatures over the last 485 million years, going back to ...
Fall equinox to winter solstice; how a cataclysmic event caused us to have seasons on Earth
Nick Bannin, chief meteorologist, explains the changing of the seasons, why temperature doesn’t mark the change, and the Latin that explains spring and fall.
How to Cool the World Without Blocking the Sun
Microbes, after all, play enormously consequential roles in the world around us and within us—I should credit the trillions ...
Huge Variations in Earth's Temperature Over Last Half-Billion Years
A new study co-led by the University of Arizona and the Smithsonian offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's ...
Science Daily21h
Over nearly half a billion years, Earth's global temperature has changed drastically, driven by carbon dioxide
A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...