Cities Scramble for Trees That Can Adapt to a Changing Climate Climate change is scrambling the seasons , wreaking havoc on trees. Some temperate and high-altitude regions will grow more humid, which can lead to lethal rot. In other temperate zones, drier springs ... 05/2/2024 - 6:00 am | View Link
Meteorites in Antarctica Are Getting Harder to Find because of Climate Change As climate change warms the poles, precious Antarctic meteorites will melt their way down out of scientists’ reach ... 05/1/2024 - 2:01 am | View Link
Climate change is shifting the zones where plants grow With the arrival of spring in North America, many people are gravitating to the gardening and landscaping section of home improvement stores, where displays are overstocked with eye-catching seed ... 04/28/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
Opinion: Is planting trees on Arbor Day one way we can all fight climate change? Not so much In California and beyond, responsibly managing and conserving mature forests is far more important to reducing atmospheric levels of carbon. 04/25/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
After Witnessing Climate Change Effects in Antarctica, Expert Calls for Stronger Conservation Action Dr. Cassandra Brooks—an assistant professor of environmental studies and a faculty fellow with the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who has been a ... 04/25/2024 - 1:05 am | View Link
The Rockies, oh so desperately needed someone to make a big splash.
Two players delivered Friday night — one of them literally — in the Rockies’ 3-2 win over the Pirates at PNC Park.
Ryan McMahon led off the Rockies’ three-run sixth inning with a 445-foot homer that splashed down in the Allegheny River.
The Eta Aquarids meteor shower, which occurs each year as the Earth passes through remnants of Halley’s comet, is expected to reach its peak this weekend. Watchers can expect to see hundreds of meteors fill the sky in the pre-dawn hours. With the moon at a waning crescent, the show is expected to be even more vibrant than usual.
Chants of “disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest” are reverberating across the globe as student-led protests in support of Palestine have popped up outside the U. S. and in countries like Australia, Mexico, and the U. K. as the Israel-Hamas war enters into its seventh month.
The best Taylor Swift needle drops will make you think about her music a little differently. A show like You might play with tone, turning an emotional ballad into comic relief, while The Buccaneers might help christen a new Swiftie classic with one pivotal scene. Some music syncs feel so seamless you may start to believe they were written specifically for a movie, while others, like Swift’s Valentine’s Day sweetheart anthem “Today Was a Fairytale,” actually was.
In a fast-food culture, there may be few things better for your health than making a simple home-cooked meal. But while the meal itself may be a good idea, the cooking part can be a problem—at least if you own a natural gas or propane stove. That’s the conclusion of a new study in Science Advances, showing that dangerous levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are emitted by both kinds of stoves.
The findings are a result of new work conducted at Stanford University by environmental scientist Rob Jackson and graduate researcher Yannai Kashtan.