Impacts Stretching crust explains Earth’s 170,000-year-long heat wave During a brief period in Earth’s past, a massive emission of carbon abruptly raised global temperatures, acidified oceans, and stamped out species. New data may help explain how it happened.
Newsletter www.washingtonpost.com Scientists stunned by massive snowfall increases among Alaska’s highest peaks “Snowfall before the Industrial Revolution averaged about eight feet of fresh snow a year at this site, and now we get over 18 feet of fresh snow.”
