Continental drift may have started 3.2 billion years ago or earlier.
Month: April 2020
Meltwater Pulse 1A
Past sea-level increases far outpace our current rate of sea-level rise (36 cm/100 years).
Managed retreat – Words rarely spoken
Coastal flooding forces communities to make hard decisions about the future.
The smell of rain – Geosmin
Geosmin is the chemical compound responsible for the smell of rain.
Virus survival strategies
Illness results from the body’s attempt at eliminating a virus, not from the virus itself.
Crystal memory storage: Truly permanent data
A billion years from now another civilization will review our records to learn from our many mistakes.
Hot and dry in the Western USA, a megadrought in progress
Human activity amplifies the severity of a megadrought in the Western USA.
The Amazon Rainforest pharmacy
Humanity has barely scratched the surface of the medicinal power from Amazon plants
The Kaapvaal Craton and early life on planet earth
The Kaapvaal Craton in South Africa holds secrets about early life on the earth.
The rain garden, an incremental solution
Rain gardens are an incremental solution to urban pollution.