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Drowned land holds clue to first Americans - Brief Article
Combining the skills of the late Jacques Cousteau and Louis Leakey, two Canadian researchers have gone off the deep end to address one of the...
Science News, 02/05/00 by R. Monastersky · More from publication -
Major mood swing alters Pacific character - Pacific Ocean's temperature variations will affect weather in North America - Brief Article
Afflicted with a bipolar personality, the Pacific Ocean has apparently veered from one temperature extreme to the other--a change that could alter...
Science News, 01/29/00 by R. Monastersky · More from publication -
As globe warms, atmosphere keeps its cool - Brief Article
A panel of top scientists last week doled out ammunition to both sides in the debate over global warming. A panel of top scientists last week...
Science News, 01/22/00 by R. Monastersky · More from publication -
All mixed up over birds and dinosaurs - feathered dinosaur fossil found in China likely a fake - Brief Article
Red-faced and downhearted, paleontologists are growing convinced that they have been snookered by a bit of fossil fakery from China. The "feathered...
Science News, 01/15/00 by R. Monastersky · More from publication -
Corals keep eruption record - Brief Article
When the Indonesian volcano Krakatau exploded in 1883, it blew so much dust and gas into the atmosphere that it turned sunsets red around the globe...
Science News, 01/01/00 by R. Monastersky · More from publication -
Smoggy Asian air enters United States - Brief Article
Atmospheric scientists have detected a previously unknown Asian import smuggling its way into the United States. Smoggy air, rich in ozone...
Science News, 01/01/00 by R. Monastersky · More from publication -
Messy pilgrims blamed for puzzling fossils
PARIS, 1746. Monsieur de Voltaire this week offered a startling new theory to explain the origin of fossils, a problem that has vexed philosophers...
Science News, 12/18/99 by R. de Monastersky · More from publication -
A sign of healing appears in stratosphere
Satellite measurements indicate that the amount of harmful chlorine pollution in Earth's stratosphere has started to decline--a sign that the ozone...
Science News, 12/18/99 by R. Monastersky · More from publication -
Do offshore wells fight natural pollution?
Environmental organizations have tarred the oil industry for its history of fouling the atmosphere and oceans, but a new study suggests some oil...
Science News, 11/20/99 by R. Monastersky · More from publication -
Waking Up to the Dawn of Vertebrates
Paleontologists have long regarded vertebrates as latecomers who straggled into evolutionary history after much of the initial sound and fury had...
Science News, 11/06/99 by R. Monastersky · More from publication
