The Liaoning forest of 130 million years ago offers us a glimpse of the world just before flowering plants became common. Today, plants with flowers–called angiosperms–dominate the landscape. Around
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Get ready to travel back in time. Your voyage will take you to a part of eastern Asia as it looked 130 million years ago. At the time, this region–now in the Chinese province of Liaoning–was warm an
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In the ancient Liaoning forest, pieces of plants fell into the lake, sank to the bottom, were buried and eventually became fossils. In recent years researchers have found enough fossil plants to re-cr
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Recurrent droughts disrupt southern Africa’s essential maize crop.
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Ancient snow—now in the form of ice—reveals a lot about past temperatures: the chemical makeup of snow depends on the air temperature at which it formed.
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Fossil bone is a code that records an animal’s biology in microscopic detail; cracking that code will be among the greatest challenges of 21st-century paleontology.
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As temperature rises, more water evaporates from the ocean, transferring energy and water vapor to the atmosphere.
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Not all dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago.
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Recent heat waves have caught some cities unprepared. Will they be ready for the next one?
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Flying, trucking and shipping foods around the world uses oil, so buying local foods can reduce „food miles“ emissions.
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