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Oceans Acidifying Fastest in 300 Million Years Due to Emissions
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
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?
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
A swathe of seagrass in the Mediterranean could be the oldest known living thing on Earth. Carlos Duarte of...