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Climate Change: a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns when that change lasts for an extended period of time (i.e., decades to millions of years). Climate change may refer to a change in average weather conditions, or in the time variation of weather around longer-term average conditions (i.e., more or fewer extreme weather events). Climate change is caused by factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics, and volcanic eruptions. Certain human activities have been identified as primary causes of ongoing climate change, often referred to as global warming.
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JUL 17, 2018Microbiology
As permafrost starts to thaw out, it's exposing untold numbers of new bacteria, which can spew out methane.Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 16, 2018Earth & The Environment
Hawaii Governor David Ige has signed into law a ban on the sale, offer, or distribution of any sunscreens containing oxy ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 12, 2018Earth & The Environment
Flashback about 16,000 years ago. During this time, the Southern Ocean was experiencing a sudden rise in atmospheric CO2 ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 11, 2018Genetics & Genomics
The story of human evolution is still being written.Written By: Carmen LeitchJUL 11, 2018Plants & Animals
Many of the world’s animals display some type of response to the hazardous effects imposed by climate change. In m ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUL 10, 2018Earth & The Environment
Lay off the stormwater ponds - they’re doing more good than you know! A new study published in the journal Ec ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 06, 2018Earth & The Environment
The 2017 California wildfire season was the most destructive wildfire season on record, and yet judging from the start o ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 06, 2018Earth & The Environment
We had all been wondering for a long time now how a self-acclaimed climate change denier could be in charge of the so-ca ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 05, 2018Earth & The Environment
Are you one of the millions of people who enjoy one, two, or maybe even three cups of joe during your day? (Trivia quest ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUL 03, 2018Chemistry & Physics
Once considered the crown jewel of industrial evolution, the prevalence of plastics has been slowly becoming one of the ...Written By: Daniel DuanJUN 27, 2018Earth & The Environment
Hawaii was built by volcanoes, and the recent Kilauea eruption in Puna on the big island of Hawaii shows us in live-acti ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 26, 2018Earth & The Environment
If you had to guess, what would you think “F-sand” is? Whatever your answer, I’ll be mightily impresse ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 25, 2018Plants & Animals
Olive trees throughout Europe are in trouble as an incommodious bacterium known as Xylella fastidiosa spreads like wildf ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 18, 2018Plants & Animals
The black-browed albatross is perhaps one of the most easily-discernable seabirds because of its iconic facial character ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 18, 2018Technology
As desertification advances, the rich lands and cultures of oases are vanishing.Written By: Julia TraversJUN 14, 2018Earth & The Environment
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have been hard at work trying determine a climate pattern tool that ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 13, 2018Earth & The Environment
A recent study published in the journal Joule has got the world giddy with a new development in technology that could ha ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 12, 2018Earth & The Environment
A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences combined empirical models of maize production w ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 11, 2018Plants & Animals
The African Baobab tree has a reputation for being one of the largest and oldest trees on the continent. These trees spo ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 10, 2018Earth & The Environment
Rice is the primary food source for more than 2 billion people worldwide. That means that roughly quarter of all people ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 06, 2018Technology
The nonprofit Rainforest Connection invented a new way to monitor rainforests for logging.Written By: Julia TraversJUN 06, 2018Earth & The Environment
Within Canada, there are 295 utility-scale wind farms currently operating. That is a big number (though not as big as we ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanJUN 05, 2018Plants & Animals
Earth’s oceans and the animals that inhabit them are experiencing a crisis; rogue pieces of plastic pollution pose ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJUN 01, 2018Chemistry & Physics
A chemistry team from University of Delaware (UD) reported that they have developed a highly efficient chemical reaction ...Written By: Daniel Duan
JUL 17, 2018
Microbiology
As permafrost starts to thaw out, it's exposing untold numbers of new bacteria, which can spew out methane.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 16, 2018
Earth & The Environment
Hawaii Governor David Ige has signed into law a ban on the sale, offer, or distribution of any sunscreens containing oxy
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 12, 2018
Earth & The Environment
Flashback about 16,000 years ago. During this time, the Southern Ocean was experiencing a sudden rise in atmospheric CO2
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 11, 2018
Genetics & Genomics
The story of human evolution is still being written.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUL 11, 2018
Plants & Animals
Many of the world’s animals display some type of response to the hazardous effects imposed by climate change. In m
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUL 10, 2018
Earth & The Environment
Lay off the stormwater ponds - they’re doing more good than you know! A new study published in the journal Ec
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 06, 2018
Earth & The Environment
The 2017 California wildfire season was the most destructive wildfire season on record, and yet judging from the start o
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 06, 2018
Earth & The Environment
We had all been wondering for a long time now how a self-acclaimed climate change denier could be in charge of the so-ca
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 05, 2018
Earth & The Environment
Are you one of the millions of people who enjoy one, two, or maybe even three cups of joe during your day? (Trivia quest
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUL 03, 2018
Chemistry & Physics
Once considered the crown jewel of industrial evolution, the prevalence of plastics has been slowly becoming one of the
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan
JUN 27, 2018
Earth & The Environment
Hawaii was built by volcanoes, and the recent Kilauea eruption in Puna on the big island of Hawaii shows us in live-acti
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 26, 2018
Earth & The Environment
If you had to guess, what would you think “F-sand” is? Whatever your answer, I’ll be mightily impresse
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 25, 2018
Plants & Animals
Olive trees throughout Europe are in trouble as an incommodious bacterium known as Xylella fastidiosa spreads like wildf
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 18, 2018
Plants & Animals
The black-browed albatross is perhaps one of the most easily-discernable seabirds because of its iconic facial character
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 18, 2018
Technology
As desertification advances, the rich lands and cultures of oases are vanishing.
Written By:
Julia Travers
JUN 14, 2018
Earth & The Environment
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have been hard at work trying determine a climate pattern tool that
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 13, 2018
Earth & The Environment
A recent study published in the journal Joule has got the world giddy with a new development in technology that could ha
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 12, 2018
Earth & The Environment
A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences combined empirical models of maize production w
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 11, 2018
Plants & Animals
The African Baobab tree has a reputation for being one of the largest and oldest trees on the continent. These trees spo
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 10, 2018
Earth & The Environment
Rice is the primary food source for more than 2 billion people worldwide. That means that roughly quarter of all people
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 06, 2018
Technology
The nonprofit Rainforest Connection invented a new way to monitor rainforests for logging.
Written By:
Julia Travers
JUN 06, 2018
Earth & The Environment
Within Canada, there are 295 utility-scale wind farms currently operating. That is a big number (though not as big as we
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
JUN 05, 2018
Plants & Animals
Earth’s oceans and the animals that inhabit them are experiencing a crisis; rogue pieces of plastic pollution pose
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JUN 01, 2018
Chemistry & Physics
A chemistry team from University of Delaware (UD) reported that they have developed a highly efficient chemical reaction
...
Written By:
Daniel Duan