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Businesses, retail stores and families: Prepare for tornado season
If you manage (or work at, or shop at) a local restaurant, gas station or retail store, what would you do if a tornado were headed your way?
March 25, 2013
More corn for biofuels means fewer grasslands and wetlands
Using data on crop cover from USDA, researchers demonstrate that the rate of land use change to corn and soy is comparable to deforestation rates in Brazil and Indonesia in the 1980s.
March 24, 2013
Honey bees make poor substitutes for wild pollinators
Fifty scientists from 17 countries investigated the vital role that wild insects play in crop pollination. They sampled 600 agricultural fields on every continent except Antarctica.
March 24, 2013
Monument Valley timelapse
Enjoy this timelapse video of the American Southwestern landscape as shot by Les Projections de la Cabane in September of 2009.
March 23, 2013
Shrinking wings keep swallows from becoming road kill
Decreased wingspan in cliff swallows may be an adaptation to the threat of motor vehicles.
March 22, 2013
Officially spring, but feels like winter for many in U.S.
If you like warm weather in the eastern U.S., then you won't like the forecast for the upcoming week. Below average temperatures will be the norm!
March 22, 2013
View down an ice borehole
What does it look like to descend hundreds of meters into a deep hole of Antarctic ice?
March 21, 2013
NASA on asteroid defense: If it’s coming in three weeks, pray
The U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Committee met in a hearing on March 19, 2013 to discuss threats from space.
March 21, 2013
Auroras seen at high and mid-latitudes this weekend
As expected, the March 15 coronal mass ejection or CME from the sun caused auroras, or northern lights, at high and mid latitudes.
March 18, 2013
February 2013 was ninth warmest February on record
Globally, last below-average temps for February were in 1976. Last below-average month was December 1984. If you're 27 or younger, no month of your life has had below-average temps.
March 18, 2013
