Category: Climate/Environment/Ecology/Geology
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A New Way to Understand the World’s Rarest Minerals
Two geologists have developed a system for classifying some of the most elusive substances on the planet. Read the rest at The Atlantic.
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The Bacteria that Live in Your Coffee Maker
This article was originally posted on RealClearScience. Wherever you live, bacteria live. Wherever you can’t live, bacteria live. From hydrothermal vents to acid mines, microbes have the planet covered. They also have your Nespresso machine covered. Recently, Spanish researchers decided to inventory the microbial community that dwells inside George Clooney’s favorite coffee maker.
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Policies to Mitigate Climate Change Could Increase Global Hunger
All policies bear costs and unintended consequences.
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Rare Weather Patterns Can Trigger Tsunamis
The meteotsunamis, some as high as 3 meters (10 feet), hit coastal areas all over Europe.
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Phil Plait’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
This article was originally published on RealClearScience. The Apocalypse is here. Science writer Phil Plait’s worst nightmare came true. The Republicans won control of the U.S. Senate. What can we expect to happen? In Plait’s words, the Republicans will “put a cohort of science-deniers [sic] into positions of authority,” which “quite literally affects the future…
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Europeans & Their Highfalutin, Pollutin’ Scooters
It’s not uncommon to see newly minted Russian citizen Gerard Depardieu zipping around Paris or, say, the French President slipping away from the Élysée to meet up with his mistress.
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When a Dam Break Killed 2,209 Americans
One of America’s greatest tragedies is curiously absent from most U.S. history textbooks.
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How Europe Is Destroying the Baltic Sea
Seven of the ten biggest “dead zones” in the world are in the Baltic Sea.
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Humans Aren’t at the Top of Food Chain
In fact, we’re nowhere near the top.