At least it seems that way to me, and my highly advanced dinosaur-news radar. This week, Earth & Sky featured not one, but two dinosaur shows. Just today, two brand-new dinosaurs appeared on the fossil scene.
A long-necked dinosaur, the Glacialisaurus hammeri, was pulled out of the ice and rock of Antarctica almost a decade ago. […]
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A new dinosaur is born every day
Published December 12th, 2007 in Bizarre, Earth, Animals and Science. 1 CommentMelting ice equals Arctic opportunities
Published August 8th, 2007 in Earth and Human World. 7 CommentsIn my last post I wrote about Russia’s undersea flag-dropping stunts and their geological claim to Arctic resources. To be honest, the story startled me - I’d been thinking of the Arctic as an environmental sanctuary, where people would do anything to protect polar bears on their already dwindling sea ice.
At the very least, […]
Last week, Earth & Sky featured a radio show about carbon offsets. Carbon offsetting is the system of paying companies to invest in projects to neutralize your carbon emissions. Climate scientist Ken Caldeira called carbon offsets “questionable” because there is no concrete way to measure how the offsets you pay for actually affect carbon […]
Why is Earth losing its diversity?
Published May 25th, 2007 in Plants, Earth, Animals and Human World. 5 CommentsThis past Tuesday, May 22, was celebrated as the International Day for Biological Diversity (IBD for short) across the world. The IBD is designed to to raise awareness around what the website calls one of the most critical issues facing our planet today.
This year’s IBD focused on biodiversity and climate change. Climate change is blamed […]