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Every single organism on Earth, no matter the biome, the kingdom, the domain, whether it's an extremophile in a hot spring or ...
The clean-up and site restoration of a New Zealand research station in Antarctica has provided valuable lessons on the ...
Two of the world’s top weather agencies forecast several years of even more record-breaking heat that pushes Earth to uncomfortable extremes.
I sit to one side of the Saddle as remains of Ice Age mammals slowly emerge into the light. Like the scientists scattered over the subterranean hillside, I wear warm clothing, boots and a caving ...
Studies of tens of thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California have found no clear evidence of any of the species evolving in response to falling temperatures as ice sheets spread ...
Scientists say up until ... it as a "master variable" of the Great Lakes, Xenopoulos, a professor of biology at Trent University and member of the IJC, says ice cover controls a number of factors ...
But no matter the season, one researcher says it's been her experience that studying the Great Lakes is treated like a second-class science. Ice and snow drifts cover the water near the Mackinac ...
The globe is warming — and that includes the Great Lakes. The five interconnected ... there so we do need ice-breaking capabilities to sample ... It's unsafe, it requires special training." The ...
Plastic pollution is a growing problem in the Great Lakes. A 2024 report by the International Joint Commission’s Great Lakes Science Advisory Board said microplastics are “ubiquitous” in Great Lakes ...
scientists warned in a new study published this week. The research by an international team of sea level and polar ice experts suggests that limiting warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.5 degrees ...
Scientists say efforts to limit global temperature increase to 1.5°C under the Paris Climate Agreement may fail to save the world’s ice sheets, resulting in potentially catastrophic sea level ...