Tiny airborne particles, like those spewed by forest fires, can alter Earth’s temperature Wildfires have captured headlines around the globe in recent years. In 2018, California wildfires caused record destruction and death. But the area they incinerated would be eclipsed by fires in 2020. Some of those fires roared outContinue Reading
The most recent six years were the warmest ever recorded The year 2020 capped off the warmest decade on record. And last year tied with 2016 for the hottest, according to new data. This record-warmth occurred even while 2020 saw decreased carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil-fuel use. “That’s not surprising atContinue Reading
The same materials that protect people from COVID-19 are creating a global garbage crisis Tanveer Adyel began to notice the trash in March. This was early in the COVID-19 pandemic. He saw latex gloves and blue, disposable masks littering his garden and street. Other types of personal protective equipment, orContinue Reading
The study is a blueprint for capitalizing on this habitat’s capacity to store carbon In the world’s largest seagrass restoration project, scientists have observed an ecosystem from birth to full flowering. As part of a 20-plus-years project, researchers and volunteers spread more than 70 million eelgrass seeds over plots coveringContinue Reading
A new study provides substantial evidence that the first fossil feather ever to be discovered does belong to the iconic Archaeopteryx, a bird-like dinosaur named in Germany on this day in 1861. This debunks a recent theory that the fossil feather originated from a different species. The research published inContinue Reading
The debate about when dinosaurs developed feathers has taken a new turn with a paper refuting earlier claims that feathers were also found on dinosaurs’ relatives, the flying reptiles called pterosaurs. Pterosaur expert Dr David Unwin from the University of Leicester’s Centre for Palaeobiology Research, and Professor Dave Martill, ofContinue Reading
Discovery may indicate modern humans and Neanderthals lived in the area concurrently Modern humans arrived in the westernmost part of Europe 41,000 — 38,000 years ago, about 5,000 years earlier than previously known, according to Jonathan Haws, Ph.D., professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University ofContinue Reading