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First-Known Fossil Iguana Burrow Found in the Bahamas

Dec. 9, 2020 — The fossilized burrow dates back to the Late Pleistocene Epoch, about 115,000 years ago, and is located on the island of San Salvador -- best known as the likely spot where Christopher Columbus made ...

Silky Sharks Find Hope in Atlantic, Remain Targets in Indo-Pacific

Dec. 9, 2020 — New research shows that conservation efforts in the Atlantic Ocean may be working for one of the most popular -- and endangered -- species that ends up in the global shark fin ...

Coral Recovery During a Prolonged Heatwave Offers New Hope

Dec. 8, 2020 — Biologists have discovered how some corals managed to survive a globally unprecedented heatwave, in a first-ever study that provides new hope for the long-term survival of coral reefs in the face of ...

Hard and Fast Emission Cuts Slow Warming in the Next 20 Years

Dec. 7, 2020 — A new study shows that strong and rapid action to cut emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases will help to slow down the rate of global warming over the next twenty ...

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Index Reveals Integrity Issues for Many of the World's Forests

Dec. 9, 2020 — Only 40 per cent of forests are considered to have high ecological integrity, according to a new global measure, the Forest Landscape Integrity Index. The Index was created by 47 forest and ...

New-Found Phenomenon That May Improve Hurricane Forecasts

Dec. 9, 2020 — Rapid storm intensification and decay remain a challenge for hurricane forecasts. Many factors are involved and some of them are either poorly known or not yet identified. One such factor appears to ...

Southern Hemisphere Westerly Winds Likely to Intensify as Climate Warms

Dec. 9, 2020 — Polar climate scientists have created the most high resolution past record of the Southern Hemisphere westerly winds. The results describe how the winds are likely to intensify and migrate poleward ...

New Geological Findings from Eastern Fennoscandia Add New Dimensions to the History of European Ice

Dec. 7, 2020 — In Finland, the majority of the glacial and warm interval records have been interpreted to represent only the last, Weichselian, glacial cycle that ...

Central Europe: Dry Aprils Pave the Way for Summer Droughts

Dec. 7, 2020 — In the past 20 years, Central Europe has experienced six summer heat waves and droughts. Until now, however, it was unclear what factors led to these extreme ...

Peatland Preservation Vital to Climate

Dec. 7, 2020 — Preserving the world's peatlands --- and the vast carbon stores they contain -- is vital to limiting climate change, researchers ...

Newly Discovered Greenland Plume Drives Thermal Activities in the Arctic

Dec. 7, 2020 — A team of researchers understands more about the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. They discovered a flow of hot rocks, known as a mantle plume, rising from the core-mantle boundary beneath central ...

The Climate Changed Rapidly Alongside Sea Ice Decline in the North

Dec. 4, 2020 — Researchers have shown that abrupt climate change occurred as a result of widespread decrease of sea ice. This scientific breakthrough concludes a long-lasting debate on the mechanisms causing abrupt ...

Continents Prone to Destruction in Their Infancy, Study Finds

Dec. 2, 2020 — Geologists have shed new light on the early history of the Earth through their discovery that continents were weak and prone to destruction in their ...

Robot Fleet Dives for Climate Answers in 'Marine Snow'

Dec. 3, 2020 — Sailing from Hobart, twenty researchers hope to capture the most detailed picture yet of how marine life in the Southern Ocean captures and stores carbon from the ...