Is Atlantic Ocean Circulation Collapse Really Imminent? The history of icebergs reveals some clues

When people think about the dangers of climate change, the idea of ​​sudden changes is very scary. Movies like The Day After Tomorrow feed into that fear, with visions of unimaginable storms and populations fleeing rapidly changing temperatures. While Hollywood clearly takes liberties with the speed and magnitude of disasters, several recent studies have raised … Read more

Unconventional Sex Let Anglerfish conquer the deep ocean

How did the evil creatures known as minnows achieve the evolutionary feat that allowed them to essentially colonize the sunless depths of the ocean? It took special sex—extremely special sex. Scientists at Yale University have discovered that an explosion of anglerfish diversification began about 50 million years ago after the ancestral line developed a strange … Read more