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Ending native forest logging would help Australia’s climate goals much more than planting trees
The Conversation· 3 days agoAustralia contains some of the world’s most biologically diverse and carbon-dense native forests. Eucalypts in wet temperate forests are the tallest flowering plants in the world and home to ...
Antarctic home - hard, expensive and bad for your health
Cosmos· 5 days agoOn October 25, 1991, I made my first trip to the US’s Antarctic Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station....
L.A. hoped to learn from NYC’s congestion pricing rollout. Now what?
Los Angeles Times· 2 days agoLos Angeles and New York have plenty of differences. For example L.A. has nice weather and great...
Newly discovered polar shipwreck may contain intriguing artifacts
WKBT La Crosse· 1 day agoPolar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew of 27 men set off aboard the HMS Endurance in 1914. After receiving aid from a whaling station, Shackleton returned for his men. While the expedition ...
Ancient ocean slowdown warns of future climate chaos
Science Daily· 4 days agoThis system has been described as the "global conveyer belt," because it redistributes heat around the globe through the movement of the ocean waters, making large portions of the planet habitable ...
From glowing corals to vomiting shrimp, animals have used bioluminescence to communicate for...
San Francisco Chronicle· 2 days agoAristotle, who was a scientist as well as a philosopher, wrote the first detailed descriptions of what he called “cold light” more than 2,000 years ago. More recently, pioneering researchers ...