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Massive Crater Beneath Chesapeake

A crater from a long-ago comet impact in Chesapeake Bay lies under hundreds of feet of sediments.

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New research reveals why chili peppers are hot

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Environment news // 11 August, 2008 12:53:00

Despite the popularity of spicy cuisine among Homo sapiens, the hotness in chili peppers has always been something of an evolutionary mystery.

Fossils record polar climate change

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Environment news // 07 August, 2008 01:42:00

Antarctic fossils paint a picture of a much warmer continent. Insects, ferns flourished, then flickered out millions of years ago as the tundra retreated.

A Single Boulder

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Environment news // 20 July, 2008 01:34:00

A lone granite boulder found against all odds high atop a glacier in Antarctica may provide additional key evidence to support a theory that parts of the southernmost continent once were connected to North America hundreds of millions of years ago.

Harnessing the sun

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Environment news // 16 June, 2008 01:06:00

In many villages throughout Tibet, there are two ways to cook a meal. There's the traditional open fire, fueled by yak dung or the region's increasingly scarce wood. And then there are solar cookers, concentrating mirrors made of two-inch-thick concrete and covered with a mosaic of small glass mirrors.

Has global warming research misinterpreted cloud behavior?

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Environment news // 10 June, 2008 01:47:00

When researchers observe natural changes in clouds and temperature, they have traditionally assumed that the temperature change caused the clouds to change, and not the other way around.

Scientists discover new ocean current

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Environment news // 29 April, 2008 09:40:00

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered a new climate pattern called the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation.

Can you rescue a rainforest?

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Environment news // 26 March, 2008 05:23:00

Half a century after most of Costa Rica's rainforests were cut down, researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute took on a project that many thought was impossible - restoring a tropical rainforest ecosystem.

Sea-level clue to climate change

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Environment news // 04 March, 2006 12:29:21
A team of UIC scientists has discovered and dated a deeply buried core sample of peat from the Mississippi Delta that suggests a rise in sea level around the time of dramatic earth cooling 8,200 years ago.

Do genes respond to global warming?

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Environment news // 06 September, 2004 09:04:43
While the effects of climate change on species' geographic range and population dynamics are increasingly understood, scientists know little about how species respond to climate change at the genetic level.