Image credit: Mikael Miettinen (creative commons license) By Sasha Wright, Mary Seeburger, and Willa Tsokanis This week I invited my FIT students, Mary…
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Climate Change Majority of Americans agree that anthropogenic climate change is happening: will we be fairly represented in Paris?
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Climate Change Religion and Climate Change in Austrailia
Understanding how religion informs our attitudes and views on the environment and climate change is a complicated proposition. However, in light of this week’s…
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Climate Change Climate change and the catastrophic wildfire
Image above: Wildfire in the Florida Panther NWR (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Creative Commons license). Editor’s Note: In just 10 days world…
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Climate Change Fossil Lizard Showcases Wyoming’s Tropical Wonderland
Wyoming is a beautiful place, but usually it is associated more with open range, cowboys, mountains, and skiing than it is with…
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Climate Change The asteroid started the fire (or did it?)
In December, I listened to the Radiolab “Apocolyptical” show which was all about the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary event. Famously, in 1980, Walter Alvarez…
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Climate Change The Colorado Plateau Coring Project: Getting Dates in the Triassic
Yesterday I wrote about how rocks layers are aged. After rock layers are lined up and put in relative order, they are…
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Climate Change Paleoecology of Magnificent Megafauna: The Moa
There was a time not so long ago (thousands of years ago, not millions, which is not so long ago to a…
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Climate Change Climate Change and Paleontology: Back to the Future
This week and next at PLOS Blogs, we are doing a focus on climate change. This is leading up to a great…
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Climate Change The [Fossil] Treasure of the Sierra Nevada
The Sierra Nevada mountain range is known for its gorgeous alpine lakes, magnificent peaks, and glacier-carved valleys. It’s home to five national…