‘4°C of global warming is optimal’ – even Nobel Prize winners are getting things catastrophically wrong
William Nordhaus’ predictions of what the climate crisis will cost the earth are dangerously at odds with climate science.
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How wildlife will keep cool in the face of rising temperatures
Shaded valleys and other cool habitats could help save threatened plants and animals from extinction.
Wild salmon are the Zendayas of the fish world – what that tells us about conservation
Wild salmon look incredibly symmetrical but captivity makes them more lopsided, stressed and less able to survive in the wild.
Anthropocene: human‑made materials now weigh as much as all living biomass, say scientists
The science-fiction scenario of an engineered planet is already here.
Rising sea levels will be too much, too fast for Florida
It is amazing for me to see the very aggressive building boom underway in south Florida; on the beaches and barrier islands, throughout downtown and in the low western areas bordering the Everglades. They…
Calling recent human history ‘Anthropocene’ won’t help us solve the problems we face
Just over ten years ago the Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric scientist Paul Crutzen coined the term “Anthropocene” for a globe totally transformed and dominated by humans, a state he suggested we were in…
A Bermuda stalagmite reveals how the Gulf Stream shifted – and what it might do as the climate changes further
Sea spray content in a stalagmite sheds light on how ocean currents in the Gulf Stream have changed in the past.
Five surprising things DNA has revealed about our ancestors
The first British people were black – and other interesting findings made possible by genomic sequencing.
Dire wolves went extinct 13,000 years ago but thanks to new genetic analysis their true story can now be told
Our research shows dire wolves lived in the tropics not the Arctic, and were not especially close relatives of the grey wolf.
Studying Earth’s distant past can teach us lessons about its climate for the future
How can air bubbles trapped in ice for millions of years, or fossilised fern fronds, or the chemical make-up of rocks that were underwater in the distant past provide us with an inkling of our future…
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