by Admin | Jun 1, 2016 | Climate Change
Florida is known for many things, not the least of which are its native alligators and crocodiles. But it’s also known for being home to a number of invasive species, like the Burmese python and, possibly, the Nile crocodile. The Nile crocodile is the second largest...
by Admin | May 23, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change
Last year, the state of Texas funded a program to build 22 seismic monitoring stations around the state, in addition to the 17 they already had there. The goal was to record more consistent and objective data about seismic activity. Why Texas? Well there’s been a...
by Admin | May 6, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change
Plants use photosynthesis to create energy, by converting water and carbon dioxide through the use of sunlight. We’ve known this for a very long time, but we’re finally starting to explore how we might use a similar system to generate power for human use. The benefits...
by Admin | Apr 21, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change
Trees have a much more social existence than we thought, according to new research by scientists from the University of Basel in Switzerland. It turns out that trees trade stored carbon between themselves, through the use of symbiotic fungi in the soil. Not only do...
by Admin | Apr 7, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change
Climate change could affect the world’s financial assets in a loss of $2.5 trillion, suggests the world’s first estimate from economic modeling. The consequences of climate change and global warming are astronomical, and not just for the physical world, but for every...
by Admin | Mar 24, 2016 | Articles, Climate Change
Predicting climate change, and the effects thereof, has never been easy. Generally, when scientists need to figure out how something like that will play out, they look to the past to see how things have gone before. That’s precisely what a team from the University of...
