The 'Uplift of the Tibetan Plateau' Myth 'The uplift of the Tibetan Plateau' is invoked to explain various phenomena, from monsoon dynamics to biodiversity evolution and everything in between....
https://scienceblogs.com/sb-admin/2020/05/12/uplift-tibetan-plateau-myth-151449
Fireflies Face Extinction Threat Due To Pesticides, Habitat Loss, And Light Pollution The International Union for the Conservation of Nature, a coalition of activist groups which recently charg...
The End Is Not Near, But If An 'Insect Apocalypse' Ever Happens, How Would We Know? Insects scuttle, chew and fly through the world around us. Humans rely on them to pollinate plants, prey on i...
George Monbiot Q + A – How rejuvenating nature could help fight climate change Natural climate solutions let nature do the hard work in the fight against climate change by restoring habitats...
#1: Is there an evolutionary advantage to "being stupid"? And the #1 blog entry published thus far in 2017 discussed whether there was an evolutionary advantage to being stupid: ---- As I w...
https://scienceblogs.com/lifelines/2017/10/30/1-is-there-an-evolutionary-advantage-to-being-stupid
Pollution: not “an unavoidable consequence” of development The headlines are grabbing people's attention: CBC News: "POLLUTION CAUSING MORE DEATHS WORLDWIDE THAN WAR OR SMOKING "; CNN: "...
The data gap problem “The monitoring of the atmosphere, of the surface of the Earth, of what’s going on in the ocean and under the ice — all of that is overwhelmingly funded by the federa...
https://scienceblogs.com/classm/2017/09/15/the-data-gap-problem
The Trump War on Science: Daring blindness, Denying climate change, Destroying the EPA and other daily disasters The last one of these was in mid-June , so we're picking up all the summer stori...
The limits of adaptation > The release of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by the burning of > fossil fuels is, conceiveably, the most important environmental > issue in ...
https://scienceblogs.com/classm/2017/08/29/the-limits-of-adaptation
NASA team provides free satellite public health data to researchers and communities by Dominika Heusinkveld, MD, MPH Researchers at NASA and the University of Arizona, among others, are hoping...