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Earth’s Ice Is Melting Much Faster Than Forecast. Here’s Why That’s Worrying.

admin February 7, 2018February 7, 2018 climate change

By Jason E. Box - Professor in Glaciology, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland COPENHAGEN — For me it was only after eight years of studying Greenland — installing and maintaining a network of on-ice climate stations and examining how much snow evaporates from the island — that I suddenly realized glaciology

Could biodiversity destruction lead to a global tipping point?

admin January 17, 2018January 17, 2018 Environmental

Just over 250 million years ago, the planet suffered what may be described as its greatest holocaust: ninety-six percent of marine genera (plural of genus) and seventy percent of land vertebrate vanished for good. Even insects suffered a mass extinction – the only time before or since. Entire classes of

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