Earth

  1. Climate

    Researchers rethink fate of celebrity plankton

    A poster-species for the hazards of greenhouse gas accumulation thrives in carbon dioxide-rich waters.

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  2. Agriculture

    Polluted Scents

    Insects and Bats May Face Confusion.

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  3. Earth

    Here’s a Title We’ll Gladly Relinquish

    China appears to be the world leader in carbon-dioxide emissions, but we may be partly to blame.

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  4. Earth

    Britain’s biggest meteorite strike

    An unusual layer of rock found along Britain's northwestern coast formed from the debris thrown out of a crater when a meteorite struck nearby more than 1 billion years ago.

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  5. Earth

    Refuge for the resilient

    Some conservationists recommend creating marine parks in areas most likely to survive climate change.

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  6. Earth

    Naming Your Tax Write-Off

    You can name this newly discovered sea slug — or nudibranch — housed in the Scripps Oceanographic Collections. The catch: It’ll cost you. But that “donation” will be tax deductible.

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  7. Earth

    Sense of Wonder Contest

    Rachel Carson aficionados will recognize The Sense of Wonder as the title of one of that environmentalist’s books. The Environmental Protection Agency is using that title to invite people young and old—literally and collaboratively—to explore that sense in poetry, essays, and photography. It’s inviting submissions from intergenerational teams “that best express the ‘Sense of Wonder’ […]

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  8. Earth

    Tibetan Plateau history gets a lift

    The Tibetan Plateau formed when the Indian and Eurasian plates collided, but scientists may have had the order of events wrong.

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  9. Earth

    A New Would-Be Hormone in Water

    Nitrate, a common pollutant, may also perturb reproductive hormones—at least in frogs.

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  10. Earth

    Floral Cues to Climate Change

    Phenology may not be a word that trips off your tongue, but it may be one you want to consider adding to your vocabulary. It has the same root as phenomena, and in fact deals with biological events linked to climate—such as bird migrations and plant germination. The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research has set […]

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  11. Earth

    New Recipe for Pollution Stew: Another chemical culprit adds to ozone

    A reactive chemical in urban air cleans up some pollutants but could introduce another.

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  12. Chemistry

    Sense of Wonder

    Multigenerational projects may help us visualize the big picture.

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