Some years ago, NASA bred wheat in space with the goal of providing an unending food supply for astronauts. To help …

Marlene Cimons at 11:40 AM Jan 10 2018
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Hollywood’s latest disaster flick, “Geostorm,” is premised on the idea that humans have figured out how …

Jane A. Flegal and Andrew Maynard/The Conversation at 10:57 AM Oct 23 2017
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  Labor Day weekend delivered record-breaking temperatures to California as a heat wave swept the state, …

Jeremy Deaton at 14:26 PM Sep 7 2017
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Life on Earth has survived vast changes in climate, from a warm period 450 million years ago, when most of the …

Jeremy Deaton at 10:23 AM Aug 24 2017
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When we think about how climate change will impact water, we “tend to think about droughts or flooding or …

Kendra Pierre-Louis at 17:00 PM Jul 28 2017
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Has the Earth already reached peak warming? Has climate change leveled off, leaving us to adjust to a new, warmer …

Kendra Pierre-Louis at 13:12 PM May 26 2017
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The common lizard, as its name suggests, is common. Its range begins to the west in Ireland and stretches as far …

Kendra Pierre-Louis at 10:43 AM May 10 2017
 
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