Hydroelectric dams may jeopardize the Amazon’s future

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Hundreds of built and proposed hydroelectric dams may significantly harm life in and around the Amazon by trapping the flow of rich nutrients and modifying the climate from Central America to the Gulf of Mexico. These findings, published in Nature, emerge from a multidisciplinary, international collaboration of researchers from 10 universities, led by scientists at […]

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June 15, 2017 at 07:14AM

Featured Climate Fraudster Of The Day – David Barber

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David Barber says thick multi-year ice which ruined his global warming expedition in the Hudson Bay, is due to global warming. Climate change study in Canada’s Hudson Bay thwarted by climate change | World news | The Guardian Eight years ago, he said multi-year ice was effectively gone from the Arctic, and completely gone from […]

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June 15, 2017 at 07:01AM

New evidence that all stars are born in pairs

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Did our sun have a twin when it was born 4.5 billion years ago? Almost certainly yes—though not an identical twin. And so did every other sunlike star in the universe, according to a new analysis by a theoretical physicist from UC Berkeley and a radio astronomer from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Harvard University. […]

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June 15, 2017 at 07:00AM

These are the global hotspots for alien species

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Alien species are a global problem, but they’re a particular headache in certain hotspots of the world. An alien species, in this context, is not a creature from outer space but an animal or plant introduced by humans outside of its natural area of distribution. A small but important number of alien species — an […]

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June 15, 2017 at 06:52AM