Over a quarter of the world's land could become significantly drier if global warming reaches 2C - according to new research from an international team including the University of East Anglia.
The change would cause an increased threat of drought...
Percentage of Democrats and Republicans viewing coastal environmental problems as serious threat.
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The effects of human activities on marine environments along the United States coasts are easily observed. Less apparent, however, are the perceptions...
Microscopic animal fossils. From left; the oldest known pterobranch hemichordate; teeth from a priapulid, a sediment dwelling predatory worm; the carapace of a tiny arthropod.
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A team of researchers from Uppsala University have uncovered a...
Floral heat patterns from rock rose.
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A new study, led by scientists from the University of Bristol, has found that a wide range of flowers produce not just signals that we can see and smell, but also...
Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration, Upper New York Bay.
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In the 19th century, over 5 million Germans moved to North America. It was not only a century of poverty, war and revolutions in what is...
Storm (stock image).
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Under global climate change, Earth's climatic zones will shift toward the poles. This is not just a future prediction; it is a trend that has already been observed in the past decades. The...
Scientists have discovered the genetics behind the long healthy lifespan of this group of Amish people.
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The first genetic mutation that appears to protect against multiple aspects of biological aging in humans has been discovered...
Young Norway spruces (Picea abies) from several populations in the nursery near Matzendorf in the Canton of Solothurn. The different heights of trees from varying origins are clear to see.
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Climate change is making Swiss forests warmer...
The global conversation on trees, forests and climate needs to be turned on its head, say scientists, because the direct effects of trees on climate through rainfall and cooling may be more important than their well-studied capacity of storing...
A bank of permafrost thaws near the Kolyma River in Siberia.
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While climatologists are carefully watching carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, another group of scientists is exploring a massive storehouse of carbon that has...
Over the last 800,000 years, pre-industrial atmospheric CO2 content remained below 280 ppm, but it has now risen to the 2016 global average of 403.3 ppm.
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Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere...
