Posts Tagged ‘trees’
[NEWS] Five sci-tech links: Precambrian fossils, CO2 and trees, mountains, Uranus and Neptune, Mars
- Have fossils of the movements of ancient animals 2.1 billion years ago been found? CBC reports.
- Increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, it turns out, will not accelerate tree growth. CBC reports.
- Motherboard reports that vast “mountains” may exist, hidden deep inside the molten interior of the Earth.
- Universe Today reports on Hubble observations of the atmospheres of outer-system ice giants Uranus and Neptune.
- Universe Today reports on the startling assertion of Elon Musk that, in the foreseeable future, a round-trip ticket to Mars might cost only $US 100 thousand.
[PHOTO] Ice trees, Dupont Street west of Dovercourt Road
The winter Toronto has been having so far has seen quite a lot of snow–more, it has seen quite a lot of precipitation generally, slush and even rain–and the temperatures have been hovering just below freezing. When I got off the 161 Rogers Road bus last night at 11 o’clock, the trees were coated with ice, glittering under streetlights.
[NEWS] Five science links: redwood clones, rhea of Germany, Pescadero Basin, deep biosphere, climate
- Motherboard looks at how some ecological activists are cloning the stumps of dead redwoods to produce new trees.
- Rheas imported to the north German plains from South America are thriving, possibly even becoming indigenous. Well done! Deutsche Welle reports.
- Motherboard reports on the unique oceanic ecologies found in the upside-down lakes of the Pescadero Basin.
- The sheer mass of the deep biosphere underneath the Earth is immense, greater than that of humanity. Universe Today reports.
- The Conversation notes how we can use archeology to understand the impact of climate change.