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Squirrels are a passion for Sarah Westrick, a biology researcher at the University of Michigan. Last summer she attended the Kluane Red Squirrel Project in the Shakwak Trench near Kluane National Park and Reserve in Canada’s southwest Yukon Territory. Researchers congregate there each summer to study the North American red squirrel.
Westrick was studying the squirrel’s maternal behavior, specifically how the moms prepare their pups for nature’s rea ...read more
One verdict on global warming in 2017 is in: Warmest year with no temperature boost from El Niño, and second warmest overall
This map shows how air temperatures at a height of two meters varied in 2017 from the 1981–2010 average. (Source: Copernicus Climate Change Service, ECMWF)
Today brought another lesson about the difference between weather and climate.
While winds were howling, snow was blowing, and temperatures were plummeting thanks to the bomb cycl ...read more
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When turns you on? When responding to the question, most people turn to physical attributes, and we can probably all guess what the answers might be.
But for some, sexual attraction stems not from the assemblage of flesh and bone that carries us through life, but from what resides within. No, it’s not the soul — it’s the mind.
Or so they say. So-called sapiosexuals claim to be attracted to intellect, and many say that it ov ...read more
Willy from Philly measures snow precipitation
Did you know that forecasters rely on YOU to help accurately predict storms, floods, droughts and extreme weather conditions? The National Weather Service, for example, depends on people just like you to report local rain and snow precipitation measurements to a citizen science project known as CoCoRaHS: Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network. Learn more about this long-running, popular project and, when you’re ready to jum ...read more
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