The number of simultaneously acting global change factors has a negative impact on the diversity of plant communities – regardless of the nature of the factors.
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Plastic Pollution Kills Sea Urchin Larvae
Sea urchin larvae raised in high levels of plastic pollution die due to developmental abnormalities, new research shows.
Linking Fossil Climate Proxies to Living Bacteria Helps Climate Predictions
Microbial skins are made out of lipids – fatty molecules – which can be preserved as fossils telling us stories about how these microbes lived in the past.
NASA Launches International Mission to Survey Earth’s Water
A satellite built for NASA and the French space agency Centre National d’Études Spatiales (CNES) to observe nearly all the water on our planet’s surface lifted off on its way to low-Earth orbit at 3:46 a.m. PST on Friday.
Climate Change Played Key Role in Dinosaur Success Story
Climate change, rather than competition, played a key role in the ascendancy of dinosaurs through the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic periods.
Catching Up to Climate Change by Tracking Big-Picture Patterns
If plants were a bit more ambulatory, Peter Adler and Michael Stemkovski might find their work to be a bit less urgent.