by Admin | Sep 16, 2015 | Articles
In what sounds like the start of a horror film, scientists are working to awaken a “giant” virus they found in Siberia, which has been frozen for over 30,000 years. They’re going to make sure that it can’t harm humans first. Mollivirus sibericum, as this virus is...
by Admin | Sep 14, 2015 | Articles, Climate Change
According to McGill University physics professor Shaun Lovejoy, the primary reason that weather forecasts are so often wrong is that they don’t make use of the atmospheres “long term memory.” By making greater use of historical climate data, he has developed a system...
by Admin | Sep 11, 2015 | Articles, Environmental hazards
Since 1960, we’ve been finding plastic in the stomachs of seabirds, but back then, it was less than 5% of individual birds who faced this problem. According to scholars from CSIRO and Imperial College London, by 2010 that 5% had risen to 80%. Now, according to a new...
by Admin | Sep 4, 2015 | Articles, Climate Change
Until the 17th century, the northern bald ibis called Central Europe its home, and would migrate between there and northern Italy, around Tuscany. However, over-hunting has led to this species being the 12th most endangered bird in the world. Luckily, avian...
by Admin | Sep 1, 2015 | Articles, Climate Change
In 2013, a storm hit Colorado’s Front Range area that set a number of records. In a matter of 5 days, the area received about a year’s worth of normal rainfall, between 7 and 18 inches in most parts of Boulder and Larimer counties. The storm caused mudslides,...
by Admin | Aug 28, 2015 | Articles, Climate Change
Oceans contain a myriad of fragile ecosystems, which can be harmed by any number of things, like pollution, invasive species, or climate change. According to a new study by researchers at the ARC Center for Excellence in Coral Reef Studies, warming oceans will cause...
