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Governments should act now to save threatened turtles

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…

Bacterial 'switch gene' regulates how oceans emit sulfur into atmosphere

Scientists have discovered a bacterial “switch gene” in two groups of microscopic plankton common in the oceans. The gene helps determine whether certain…

NASA Looks at Sea Level Rise, Hurricane Risks to New York City

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,…

NASA satellite finds the world's most intense thunderstorms

By using data from the NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite, researchers identified the regions on Earth that experience the most intense…

Appalachian Mountains, carbon dioxide caused long-ago global cooling

The weathering of the mountains pulled carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, causing the opposite of a greenhouse effect — an “icehouse” effect.Scientists…

Amazon River reversed flow

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…

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