Earth

  1. Humans

    When to welcome ‘invading’ species

    As climate changes, some environments are becoming hostile to the flora and fauna that long nurtured them. Species that can migrate have begun to move into regions where temperatures and humidity are more hospitable. And that can prove a conundrum for officials charged with halting the invasion of non-native species, notes Jon Jarvis, a biologist who for the past year has headed the National Park Service.

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  2. Paleontology

    India yields fossil trove in amber

    Insect remains suggest the continent hosted a surprisingly wide variety of creatures 50 million years ago.

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  3. Humans

    GNP’s glaciers: Going, going . . .

    Climate warming will eliminate them within a generation, data indicate.

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  4. Animals

    Wolverine: Climate warming threatens comeback

    BLOG: New data point to unexpected sociability and filial behavior in carnivore.

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  5. Life

    Climate changes, and there goes the neighborhood

    The ranges of rattlesnakes and voles are likely to shift drastically with warming, analyses of past changes suggest.

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  6. Earth

    ‘Fossil’ mountains entombed by ice

    Cold temperatures have kept a buried Antarctic range fresh for hundreds of millions of years.

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  7. Life

    New species a little nipper

    A mongoose-like creature from Madagascar is the first new carnivore to be discovered in more than two decades.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Mice robbed of darkness fatten up

    Time of day can affect calories' impact, a study shows.

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  9. Earth

    Oceanographers with flippers

    Tracking seal dives off Antarctica reveals seafloor troughs that affect ocean circulation.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Pesticide in womb may promote obesity, study finds

    One-quarter of babies born to women who had relatively high concentrations of a DDT-breakdown product in their blood grew unusually fast for at least the first year of life. Not only is this prevalence of accelerated growth unusually high, but it’s also a worrisome trend since such rapid growth during early infancy has — in other studies — put children on track to become obese.

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  11. Earth

    Warming is accelerating global water cycle

    Fresh water evaporates from the oceans, rains out over land and then runs back into the seas. A new study finds evidence that global warming has been speeding up this hydrological cycle recently, a change that could lead to more violent storms. It could also alter where precipitation falls — drying temperate areas, those places where most people now live.

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  12. Life

    Massive count a drop in the bucket

    As the decade-long Census of Marine Life totes up thousands of new species, it leaves much yet to discover in the world’s oceans.

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