Mass Extinction On Earth
Sidney Draggan
Earth's Sixth Mass Extinction: Is It Almost Here?
A burst of gamma rays reaching Earth may have caused
an extinction 440 million years ago. Credit: NASA
Sidney Draggan
A burst of gamma rays reaching Earth may have caused
an extinction 440 million years ago. Credit: NASA
Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News
The Greenland ice sheet is losing its mass faster than its southern counterpart
Scott Malone
BOSTON | Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:57am EST
New government figures for the global climate show that 2010 was the wettest year in the historical record, and it tied 2005 as the hottest year since record-keeping began in 1880.
REUTERS/Alister Doyle
By Jeffrey Jones
By Robert Monroe
Source: Reuters
By Alan Wheatley, Global Economics Correspondent
In the United States water and wastewater treatment plants are net users of energy.
ScienceDaily (Aug. 14, 2010) — A change in the color of ocean waters could have a drastic effect on the prevalence of hurricanes, new research indicates. In a simulation of such a change in one region of the North Pacific, the study finds that hurricane formation decreases by 70 percent.