Polar melt may shut down the Atlantic current that warms Europe
14 March 2018
Melting Arctic ice flooding into the Atlantic could put the ocean circulation that warms Europe in danger, triggering dramatic sea level rise and drought
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The Arctic is sending us signals of impending climate chaos
14 March 2018
The immediate disasters of The Day After Tomorrow remains wild exaggeration, but melting ice could yet cause dramatic climate changes by altering ocean currents
How concrete and condoms could turn a greenhouse gas green
14 March 2018
We need to suck CO2 from the air to solve the climate crisis, but what do we do with it? A budding industry is turning the gas into useful stuff
Ancient birds couldn’t sit on their eggs without smashing them
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The first birds to evolve had hip bones that forced them to lay small, weak eggs that could not support the adult bird’s weight
Deep sea discovery suggests world's oldest fossils misunderstood
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Stromatolites represent some of the oldest fossils on Earth but the assumption that they formed in sun-drenched seas has now been challenged
Leopards that live in cities are protecting people from rabies
8 March 2018
Wild leopards wander into the Indian city of Mumbai to prey on feral dogs – and in doing so they stop the dogs biting people and passing on the rabies virus
Parts of San Francisco are sinking faster than the sea is rising
7 March 2018
Rising seas are already boosting the flood risk in places like San Francisco, but the problem is even worse than that because land is also subsiding
