Climate
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EcosystemsThwarting Tree Poachers
A new federal rule makes it harder to destroy protected forests.
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ChemistryENV Tidbits: Corals, nano concerns, and more
News nuggets on climate-imperiled corals, nanotech worries, and soft drinks bearing pesticides.
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ClimateFixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat— And How to Counter It by Wallace S. Broecker and Robert Kunzig
Hill and Wang, 2008, 253 p., $25.
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ClimateClimate change stifling lemmings
Warmer winter temperatures are altering the snowpack, squelching the rodents’ population booms.
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ArchaeologyReally Cool History
Tales of the black band: Clues to a 4,200-year-old mystery lie frozen in icy records stored atop Mt. Kilimanjaro.
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ClimateEggs, Tea and Mr. IPCC
Even jet-lagged, the world's lead climate negotiator took time out to brief a few reporters.
By Janet Raloff -
ClimateThe News Climate
Whether people choose to peruse news — and where — may explain what role science plays in shaping public opinion on global warming.
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ClimateCooling climate ‘consensus’ of 1970s never was
Myth often cited by global warming skeptics debunked.
By Sid Perkins -
ClimateGlacier melts are erasing climate record
Featured blog: As glaciers continue to dry up, so does any hope of gleaning information from them about the past climate record.
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LifeClimate warms, creatures head for the hills
Unusual data let scientists test predictions that global warming drives species up slopes.
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ChemistryFluorescent bulbs offer mercury advantage
Featured blog: Switching to light bulbs that contain mercury might, surprisingly, reduce overall mercury releases to the environment. Plus, what to do when you break your fluorescent bulb.
By Janet Raloff