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Uncategorized 16 Jun 2017

New map details sinking land along Louisiana’s coast

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Researchers at Tulane University have developed a new map that details the varying rates at which land is sinking along the Louisiana coast. “The novel aspect of this study is that it provides a map that shows subsidence rates as observed at the land surface,” Torbjörn Törnqvist, professor of geology at Tulane, said in a […]

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June 16, 2017 at 07:53AM

Uncategorized 16 Jun 2017

Heavy ice off East Coast 2017 caused by winds, cold temperatures, and icebergs

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Heavy sea ice off Newfoundland and southern Labrador has been an issue for months: it brought record-breaking numbers of polar bear visitors onshore in early March and April and since then has hampered the efforts of fisherman to get out to sea. Let’s look back in time at how the ice built up, from early […]

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June 16, 2017 at 07:44AM

Uncategorized 16 Jun 2017

Animal evolution: Hot start, followed by cold shock

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The initial phases of animal evolution proceeded faster than hitherto supposed: New analyses suggest that the first animal phyla emerged in rapid succession – prior to the global Ice Age that set in around 700 million years ago. The fossil record reveals that almost all of the animal phyla known today had come into existence […]

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June 16, 2017 at 07:40AM