More frequent flooding is expected along major rivers and estuaries if sea level rises.
Some 1.25 million people live in the Thames floodplain in and around London.
Earth’s climate depends on the ocean: evaporation of ocean waters brings moisture to land areas and transfers energy to the atmosphere, where it helps drive weather systems.
together, the world’s oceans contain over 1 billion cubic kilometers (over 240 million
A list of species in the Liaoning diorama.
ginkgos Rehezemites member of the bennettite family of plants, which went extinct 85 million
Whether cities or neighborhoods, communities can provide the means for their residents to reduce CO2 emissions and live more sustainably.
Brazil, has a bus system with high-capacity loading stations, transporting nearly 2 million
The group of dinosaurs known as pachycephalosaursids had distinctive heads, with high, round skulls. Scientists once thought that modern bighorn sheep, with their two large, rounded horns, could provi
WEIGHT: about 3,000 kilograms (6,600 pounds) Food: plants When it lived: 66 million
Coal is a remnant of past life—a sort of fossil—that began as a tangle of plants on the surface of ancient Earth.
Side Effects A typical coal-fired plant produces 6 million tons of CO2 a year.
Why does the Arctic respond so quickly to climate change? For one thing, warming decreases snow and ice cover, which reduces reflectivity and exposes the ocean.
Climate change will affect all the Arctic’s four million residents, but the 400,000
Teasing out the links between disease and climate change presents a scientific challenge. Some of the complications: When a disease pops up in a new place, is it because a susceptible population has m
The disease claims nearly a million lives a year in Africa alone, but until now,
A 14-year-old boy found dinosaur bones on his family’s ranch. The fossil, unlike any other, proved to be a new species.
: 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) Food: small mammals and reptiles When it lived: 75 million
Young animals are smaller than grown ones: that’s one way we tell them apart. But the age at which juveniles achieve full size varies from species to species.
9 feet) WEIGHT: 1,000 kilograms Food: other animals When it lived: 99.6-65.5 million
