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Top Stories | February 9
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A decline in stratospheric water vapor has slowed Earth’s surface warming slightly in recent years.
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Analysis of a fossil suggests plumage first evolved for display, not flight.
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January cold snap caused rare wintertime coral bleaching and die-offs for Florida’s coral reefs.
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Ancient bat may well have used sound waves to sense the world, Sid Perkins reports in the latest Deleted Scenes blog.
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Researchers find microscopic structures in some fossils that may have held pigments.
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Researchers find microscopic structures in some fossils that may have held pigments.London’s Sunday Mail reported that it had reached the author of a chapter in a purportedly authoritative 2007 climate-change assessment and learned that this scientist – Murari Lal – deliberately used unsubstantiated sources for conclusions about the rate of glacier melting in the Himalayas. Lal doesn’t dispute that mistakes were made – ones that likely exaggerated projections of glacier melting. But he does challenge the newspaper’s charge that those mistakes were politically motivated. A London newspaper reports today that the unsubstantiated Himalayan-glacier melt figures contained in a supposedly authoritative 2007 report on climate warming were used intentionally, despite the report’s lead author knowing there were no data to back them up. Telecommunication cables could give early warnings of giant waves. On average, the economic impact of late flights exceeds that of hurricanes |
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Newly discovered trackways much older than previous evidence for sea-to-land transition.1|30 Issue Links |
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