At the current rate of warming, the Earth's ability to absorb nearly a third of man-made carbon emissions from plants could be halved within the next two decades, according to a new study in Advances in science by researchers from Northern Arizona University, Woodwell Climate Research Center, and the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Using […]
How the strangest mammal on earth got so bizarre – ScienceDaily
Often considered the strangest mammal in the world, Australia's beaver-like duck-billed platypus exhibits a number of bizarre features: it lays eggs instead of giving birth to live babies, sweats milk, has poisonous spores, and even has 10 sex chromosomes. Now, an international team of researchers, led by the University of Copenhagen, has carried out a […]
Slow start of plate tectonics despite hot early earth – ScienceDaily
Write in PNASScientists from the University of Cologne present important new restrictions that show that plate tectonics began relatively slowly, even though the early interior of the Earth was much hotter than it is today. In an international collaboration, earth scientists at the University of Cologne discovered that the convection of the earth's mantle during […]