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Not As Scary As It Seems: Planet At Risk Of Heading Towards “Hothouse Earth” State

... from 2017 Permafrost: …. This led to a new estimate that about 100 Pg of cumulative carbon emissions (with a ...

Article - Robert Walker - Aug 8 2018 - 12:49am - 0 attachments

Exoplanets Where Life Could Develop As It Did On Earth

... the same chemical conditions that may have led to life on Earth exist. And that means narrowing it down to stars like ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2018 - 8:05am - 0 attachments

Better Standards Of Living Have Led To Marine Pollution, Not Too Many Straws

American cities nationwide, riding a wave of populism brought about by media attention, are looking to ban straws, claiming they will save the planet doing so. Companies are naturally following suit - companies always will, because consumers pay the cost ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 27 2018 - 12:34pm - 0 attachments

It's A Social Media World, But The Real World Is Still Local

... professor Ming-Hsiang Tsou and alumnae Su Yeon Han led the collaborative study, also adopt mapping techniques which allowed for ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2018 - 10:00am - 0 attachments

Cirrhosis Deaths Due To Alcohol Jump Among Young Adults

... cultural pundits are quick to blame the recession which led to loss of people's savings, homes and jobs, but 14-year-olds were not ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2018 - 8:51am - 0 attachments

Crowdfunding Is Easier If A Woman Is In Charge

... bias goes the other way in crowdfunding - new ventures led by women have an advantage over men. Every 2,000 years, women ... in contrast to earlier research which claimed that female-led firms receive only 1.3 percent of venture capital financing and are often ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2018 - 4:21pm - 0 attachments

Hunter Gatherers Baked Their Own Bread 14,000 Years Ago - 4,000 Years Before Agriculture

... tools found at Natufian sites in the Levant have long led archaeologists to suspect that people had begun to exploit plants in a ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2018 - 9:31am - 0 attachments

Sea Level Rise Threatens UK Coastal Wetlands By 2100

... soil cores showed that rising sea levels in the past led to increased waterlogging of the salt marshes in the region, killing the ... survive," said study co-author Robert E. Kopp, who  led the development of the study's sea-level rise projections and is a ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2018 - 5:54pm - 0 attachments

How To Reduce Seabirds In Fishing Nets - LEDs

... nets - being caught. in Sechura Bay in northern Peru, LED lights attached at regular intervals to commercial fishing gillnets, which ... illuminated nets caught just six. Previous research showed LED lighting also reduced the number of sea turtles caught in fishing nets by ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 11 2018 - 2:31pm - 0 attachments

Suicide Nation: What's Behind It?

... and social measures has been deteriorating, which has led some to compare America to a developing country . Most other developed ...

Article - The Conversation - Jul 6 2018 - 12:07am - 0 attachments