The Cayman Islands, a UK Overseas Territory, once supported one of the world’s largest sea turtle rookeries, which comprised some 6.5 million adult green and…
Scientists have discovered a bacterial “switch gene” in two groups of microscopic plankton common in the oceans. The gene helps determine whether certain…
Cynthia Rosenzweig and Vivien Gornitz are scientists on a team at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) and Columbia University, New York City,…
By using data from the NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, researchers identified the regions on Earth that experience the most intense…
The weathering of the mountains pulled carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, causing the opposite of a greenhouse effect — an “icehouse” effect.Scientists…
The once westward roll of what is now the world's largest river was caused by a long-gone highland near what today is the river's mouth. That highland was…