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Fossils reveal how bizarre mammal beat extinction
Animals that live on islands are among the most at risk from extinction. A remarkable eighty percent of extinctions occurring since 1500AD have been on islands, with inhabitants facing dangers from climate change, sea level rise, invasive species, and human … Continue reading
Climate variability: The Atlantic’s internal drum beat
Nature Geoscience 10, 470 (2017). doi:10.1038/ngeo2970 Authors: Sloan Coats & Jason E. Smerdon The North Atlantic region experiences climate variability on a range of timescales. A climate reconstruction suggests that large-magnitude, multidecadal internal variability was a robust feature over the … Continue reading