Since the early 1950s, plastics have found their way into almost every area of modern life. Between 1964 and 2014, plastic consumption increased twentyfold, from 15 to 311 million tonnes per year.
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Stanford Scientists Find Oxygen Levels Explain Ancient Extinction Slowdown
Not long after the dawn of complex animal life, tens of millions of years before the first of the “Big Five” mass extinctions, a rash of die-offs struck the world’s oceans.
Analysis Shows Coral Loss of 14% Worldwide
First report in 13 years shows damaging effect of warming ocean
Scientists Find How Positive Cloud-to-ground Lightning Strike So Far away from Its Origin
A bolt of cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning forms if a lightning leader develops out of the cloud and reaches the ground.
Study Finds Growing Potential for Toxic Algal Blooms in the Alaskan Arctic
A warming Arctic presents potential new threats to humans and marine wildlife in the fast-changing region
What’s Behind California’s Surge of Large Fires?
Heat waves and droughts supercharged by climate change, a century of fire suppression, and fast-growing populations have made large, destructive fires more likely.