Sixty-five million years ago — a time popularized by shows and movies like “The Land Before Time” and “Jurassic Park”. With that being said, we often think of dinosaurs through their remains: fossils, fragments of bone, and skeletons encapsulated in rocks and dust, providing a glimpse into the past. However, what if we could view […]
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What if there was a way to track the entire record of Earth’s climate, from hundreds of thousands of years ago to the present day? Deep within the immense masses of ice comprising Earth’s most remote glaciers lie clues into the past and future of climate change. Similar to looking at the individual rings of
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People tend to paint the Arctic as a barren landscape, quiet and untouched by human activity. The reality, however, is that these supposedly isolated ecosystems are suffering from the actions of humans living thousands of miles away. The harmful contaminants that are produced by industrial processes travel to the Arctic and pollute the ice, air,
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Whether it be jumping into an ice-cold body of water or stepping outside into the cold, unexpected immersion into the cold isn’t uncommon. However, in extreme coldness, the body may undergo an automatic response; this is called a cold shock response. Cold shock responses include a series of involuntary responses, specifically in the heart and
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Climate change is one of the biggest health crises humanity faces, according to the World Health Organization. It is all-consuming, impacting almost every aspect of our daily lives. However, we very rarely look beyond greenhouse gas burning to the root cause of how climate change became what we know it as today: philosophy. Similar to
Forest fires have taken over the news. The past year has seen major wildfires on multiple continents. Climate change stands at the center of this crisis, especially in light of the United Nation’s COP26 Climate Summit taking place at the end of October. Unfortunately, forest fires are not the only thing we should be worrying
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Neck craning, you gaze up at an impossibly tall building, its windows shimmery and surreal against the bright sky. You spin around, eyes focused upward, and realize that all the buildings around you are taller than ever before achieved by structural engineers. What you perceive as a curious weightlessness to the building contrasts the sturdiness
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Humans produce a lot of trash. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, for example, has accumulated plastic and other kinds of waste from all over the world’s oceans. While the problem of polluting the seas is fairly well known, another territory is also feeling the effects of human interference: space. It is estimated that there are
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Humans have made many lasting, devastating changes to the world in which we live, but biodiversity loss has been one of the main changes we have wrought upon the planet. In the world of agriculture, there has also been a loss of biodiversity in the specific species of crops grown to feed a rapidly growing
An exploration of crop diversity:
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