Written by Triana O'keefe
For a long time, scientists have wondered how a large number of species can live together while competing for a single, limiting resource. Why doesn’t a single species that is better at competing for the resource crowd out all the others? According to new findings by Macquarie University, the answer to this question on coral reefs is like a very big game of rock-paper-scissors.
Written by JoNova
Funny, Al Gore didn’t say anything about 2017 being “less devastating”:
Frankfurt am Main (AFP) – Natural catastrophes worldwide were less devastating in the first half of 2017 than the average over the past 10 years, reinsurer Munich Re said Tuesday, while highlighting the role of climate change in severe US storms.
Written by British Antarctic Survey
A new study on mosses found in the polar regions reveals how several species have migrated around the globe and are even found in their polar opposite.
Written by Dr. Craig Idso
Paper Reviewed
O’Leary, J.K., Micheli, F., Airoldi, L., Boch, C., de Leo, G., Elahi, R., Ferretti, F., Graham, N.A.J., Litvin, S.Y., Low, N.H., Lummis, S., Nickols, K.J. and Wong, J. 2017. The Resilience of Marine Ecosystems to Climatic Disturbances. BioScience 67: 208-220.
Written by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
It took two years on a supercomputer to simulate 1.2 microseconds in the life of the HIV capsid, a protein cage that shuttles the HIV virus to the nucleus of a human cell. The 64-million-atom simulation offers new insights into how the virus senses its environment and completes its infective cycle.
Written by Andrew Follett
Three California counties sued 37 of the world’s largest oil and coal companies Monday for damages related to global warming-induced sea level rise.
Written by Mike Wall
The potentially Earth-like planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system may not be so conducive to life, after all, two new studies report.
Written by Klaus L.E. Kaiser
On June 25, 2017, Dr. Steven Chu’s keynote address to the attendees of the 2017 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting was presented by his colleague, Dr. W. Moerner. The written text of the speech can be downloaded from the References at my book website (Keynote-Steven-Chu-LiNo17-25-June-2017.pdf, file size 107703 bytes).
Written by Chris White
Future generations might need to employ a nearly $20 trillion vacuum cleaner to suck pollution and deadly carbon emissions out of the atmosphere, according to a study from former NASA scientist James Hansen.
Written by Andrew Follett
A Stanford University professor indicated he was ready to take legal action against NOAA researchers who published a recent study critical of his work on green energy.
Written by P Gosselin
Yesterday on Twitter meteorologist Joe Bastardi, a well-known climate science antagonist, directed our attention to the NCEP temperature situation for South America. Yikes!
Written by University of California - Irvine
To paraphrase the classic poem, no hair is an island entire of itself.
Instead, University of California, Irvine scientists have discovered that all hairs can communicate with each other and grow in coordination across the entire body.
Written by Tony Heller
Two counties by the San Francisco Bay and San Diego County are suing “Big Oil” over rising sea levels.
Marin, San Mateo counties sue Big Oil over climate change – SFGate
Written by Jon Fingas
Militaries regularly set up fueling stations at forward bases so that helicopters can get back to the fight as quickly as possible.
Written by SHANIKA GUNARATNA
An ancient underwater forest found south of Alabama’s Gulf Shores in the Gulf of Mexico could provide a time capsule to a pre-human era on Earth.
Written by Andrew Follett
A new study could upend nine decades of scientific consensus that life on Earth originated in the ocean, and not on land.