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A World Without Clouds

By Natalie Wolchover
February 25, 2019
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A state-of-the-art supercomputer simulation indicates that a feedback loop between global warming and cloud loss can push Earth’s climate past a disastrous tipping point in as little as a century.

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How Nearby Stellar Explosions Could Have Killed Off Large Animals

By Rebecca Boyle
January 15, 2019
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Subatomic particles called muons are thought to have streamed through the atmosphere and irradiated megafauna like the monster shark megalodon.

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Forests Emerge as a Major Overlooked Climate Factor

By Gabriel Popkin
October 9, 2018
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New work at the intersection of atmospheric science and ecology is finding that forests can influence rainfall and climate from across a continent.

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Cores From Coral Reefs Hold Secrets of the Seas’ Past and Future

By Elizabeth Svoboda
May 29, 2018
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Layered deposits of coral skeletons hold vast stores of environmental data from thousands of years ago, including annual records of ocean temperatures, water pollution and storm activity.

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A Thermodynamic Answer to Why Birds Migrate

By Jordana Cepelewicz
May 7, 2018
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New modeling studies suggest that birds migrate to strike a favorable balance between their input and output of energy.

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Below Our Feet, a World of Hidden Life

By Elizabeth Svoboda
June 16, 2015
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The soil teems with billions of hidden microbes. Researchers have begun to catalog how these organisms are changing the world.

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A ‘Rebel’ Without a Ph.D.

By Thomas Lin
March 26, 2014
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A conversation with the mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson on quantum electrodynamics, climate change and his latest pet project.

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The Ocean’s Dynamic Role in Climate Change

By Natalie Wolchover
April 11, 2013
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New data collected by mathematicians and oceanographers in the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean could dramatically improve climate models.

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In Mysterious Pattern, Math and Nature Converge

By Natalie Wolchover
February 5, 2013
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All complex correlated systems, from Arctic melt ponds to the Internet, appear to be governed by the same math as a random matrix.


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