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2011 Science News of the Year: Earth
NASA Warming slowdown The planet’s overall temperature has been climbing upward, but that trend stalled during the early 2000s — and now scientists think they can explain why. Several studies suggest that tiny sulfur-rich particles called aerosols, which shield the Earth from the sun’s incoming rays, are to blame. Some of those particles come from […]
- Science & Society
90th Anniversary Issue: 1990s
Detecting climate change and other highlights, 1990–99
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Aliens in Antarctica
Visitors carry unwelcome species into a once pristine environment.
- Animals
Animals on the Move
Worldwide — on land, in the sea and in rivers, streams and lakes — wildlife is responding to rising temperatures.
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Chasing a Cosmic Engine
After 100 years, energetic space particles continue to pose a perplexing mystery.
- Astronomy
Onward and Skyward
With new efforts aimed at the stars, China seeks to revive its astronomical reputation.
- Physics
As Erebus Lives and Breathes
The Antarctica volcano’s long-lived lava lake coughs up clues to the physiology of volcanoes .
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- Humans
Letters from the August 6, 2005, issue of Science News
Empty threat? “Empty Nets: Fisheries may be crippling themselves by targeting the big ones” (SN: 6/4/05, p. 360) reads as if there is something to be alarmed about. By selectively catching large fish, we have reduced “the mean size [of food fish to] one-fifth of what it was.” This is not cause for alarm. It […]
- Life
Penguin’s flight from Antarctica clocked
A climate shift millions of years ago may have forced the birds’ ancestors to flee to warmer digs.
- Science & Society
Science slowdown
The recent federal government shutdown, which furloughed more than 800,000 government workers and may have cost the nation as much as $24 billion, has sent ripples through the nation’s scientific research enterprise.
