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Oceans Acidifying Fastest in 300 Million Years Due to Emissions
By the Editor on March 2, 2012
The Earth’s oceans may be acidifying faster than at any point during the last 300 million years due to...
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DNA Reveals Neanderthal Extinction Clues
By the Editor on February 28, 2012
Neanderthals were already on the verge of extinction in Europe by the time modern humans arrived on the scene,...
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Did Ancient Arab Culture Record First Example of Climate Change?
By the Editor on February 27, 2012
A new study finds that diaries and writings from ninth-century Baghdad provide insight regarding strange weather from the era,...
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Were the Mayans Done in By Drought?
By the Editor on February 24, 2012
For more than 500 years, the Maya kings ruled the New World’s richest and most advanced civilization. But then,...
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Climate Change Drove Evolution of Earliest Horses
By the Editor on February 24, 2012
Back in the day of the first mammals, horses started out the size of house cats, weighing about 8...
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Lab-Grown Meat Is First Step to Artificial Hamburger
By the Editor on February 21, 2012
Dutch scientists have used stem cells to create strips of muscle tissue with the aim of producing the first...
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Leaked: A Plan To Teach Climate Change Skepticism in Schools
By the Editor on February 15, 2012
Internal documents have been leaked from the Heartland Institute, a Chicago nonprofit think tank, showing its funding of leading...
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Hurricanes Pose Risk to Offshore Wind Farms
By the Editor on February 14, 2012
When an oncoming hurricane curves offshore — as most do — we usually breathe a sigh of relief. But...
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Air Sampling Reveals High Methane Emissions from Natural Gas Field
By the Editor on February 9, 2012
When US government scientists began sampling the air from a tower north of Denver, Colorado, they expected urban smog–but...
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Patch of Seagrass is World’s Oldest Living Organism
By the Editor on February 8, 2012
A swathe of seagrass in the Mediterranean could be the oldest known living thing on Earth. Carlos Duarte of...
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