Climate Adaptation Can Backfire If We Aren’t Careful
The choices we make in how we adapt to climate change can sometimes come back to bite us Andrea...
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Author: scientificamerican
Robotics ‘Revives’ a Long-Extinct Starfish Ancestor
Engineers and paleontologists teamed up to reconstruct an ancestor of starfish from the Paleozoic...
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Climate Misinformation Persists in New Middle School Textbooks
Students could be taught for the next decade that humans are only partly responsible for climate...
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Climate Change Is Exacerbating Inflation Worldwide
Rising temperatures could increase global inflation by as much as 1 percent every year until 2035...
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Renewable Energy Is Charging Ahead
Renewable energy has seen considerable growth in recent years, but there is a long way to go to...
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This Part of the U.S. Will Suffer Most from Climate Change
A new index that rates 70,000 U.S. communities on their climate vulnerability finds that parts of...
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Chewing Consumes a Surprising Amount of Energy
Chomping on food takes so much energy that it shaped human evolution. Our ancestors spent many...
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Vultures Prevent Tens of Millions of Metric Tons of Carbon Emissions Each Year
Vultures get a bad reputation for their carrion-scavenging ways, but their dietary habits prevent...
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Who Owns the Ocean’s Genes? Tension on the High Seas
Countries are struggling with how to share genetic code from myriad ocean creatures, which could...
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Air-Conditioning Should Be a Human Right in the Climate Crisis
A record-breaking heat wave is sweeping South Asia, threatening hundreds of millions of people...
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A Major Ocean Current Is at Its Weakest Point in 1,000 Years
Natural variations are currently the main cause, but climate change should continue to cause it to...
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Climate Change Is Shrinking Animals, Especially Bird-Brained Birds
Song Sparrow perches in wildflowers (left), and a Swainson’s Thrush perches in a beech tree. ...
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We Desperately Need to Modernize Climate Change Emissions Tracking
At the latest COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, young people from around the world were loudly...
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Wake-Up Call: Climate Change Threatens Rice Farming
More than half the world relies on rice as a primary food source. Yet the essential crop faces an...
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What We’ve Lost: The Species Declared Extinct in 2020
Dozens of frogs, fish, orchids and other species—many unseen for decades—may no longer exist...
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Concrete Buildings Could Be Turned into Rechargeable Batteries
But for now, a square meter of the building material holds roughly the energy of two AA batteries....
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Millions of Birds Are Migrating Earlier Because of Warming
What’s the difference between a flock of birds and a rainstorm? It sounds like a dad joke—but it’s...
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Destroyed Habitat Creates the Perfect Conditions for Coronavirus to Emerge
Conditions for Coronavirus to Emerge This aerial photograph, taken on September 30, 2019, in...
Read MoreWhat Immunity to COVID-19 Really Means
The presence of antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 virus could provide some protection, but scientists need more data Researcher in Shanghai, China, employs a test for antibodies. Such tests could help determine who is immune to the...
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To Spend Less to Protect Biodiversity, Involve – Not Evict – Forest-Dwellers
The cost of relocating tribal people, forest dwellers and pastoral communities for biodiversity...
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