Global Warming

The delicate marine animals known as sea angels are facing unprecedented change because of global warmingSea angels are pteropods (which get their name from the Greek words for “wing” and “foot”). And their survival—or not—may serve as an indicator of ocean health. Credit: Getty ImagesThese winged water-dwellers are sea angels,…

AbstractZellweger et al. (Reports, 15 May 2020, p. 772) claimed that forest plant communities’ response to global warming is primarily controlled by microclimate dynamics. We show that community thermophilization is poorly explained by the underlying components of microclimate, and that global warming primarily controls the climatic lag of plant communities.…

Strip away the mythmaking and genocide erasure, and American Thanksgiving is a simple harvest festival, celebrated in various forms by cultures all over the world and across human history. This year’s harvest—threshed, picked, slaughtered, butchered, packaged, shipped, and finally cooked—takes place under particularly precarious conditions: a warming atmosphere containing a…

Try to remember the fanciest spread of desserts you’ve ever seen. Now picture what would happen if it sat outside in the summer heat for a couple of hours. Mousse would morph into ooze, tiered cakes would start to slip and slide, and delicate chocolate decorations would melt into unrecognizable…

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Past sins are past no more: an overdue historical recalibration is under way, with monuments being pulled down, dorms renamed, restitution offered. People did things, bad things; even across the span of centuries, they’re being held to account, and there’s something noble about that. The Reverend Robert W. Lee IV,…

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Following its initial announcement back in October, Heroes War: Counterattack is now available for iOS and Android. We also featured the game last week in our second LaunchPad event where we shared a few developer insights. Heroes War: Counterattack is a turn-based RPG that's set in a post-apocalyptic world that's…

The impact of sea surface temperature variations in the tropical Pacific on global climate has long been recognized. For instance, the episodic warming of the tropical Pacific during El Niño events causes melt of sea ice in far-reaching parts of the Southern Ocean via its effect on the global atmospheric…