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On Droughts and Dust Bowls—California Looks Back to 1934

Medicine & Technology Oct 17, 2014

Recently accepted for publication by the journal Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, the research lead by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyzed the relative intensity and devastation caused by droughts since 1000 AD and found that though the 2014 summer in California was particularly out of the ordinary even in the driest of areas, it did not quite compare to the drought of 1934.

Even Energy Comes At a Price—Researchers Finally Quantify What’s Needed for Life

Sep 17, 2014

Even long before the Darwinian notions of “Survival of the Fittest”, one question has plagued mankind—what is needed to stay alive? With the uniquity of each species, and every individual within them, it has been a question that has long gone unanswered for the diversity and complexity shrouding a unified explanation. But as technology has advanced, making movement and energy consumption easily calculated tangible data, researchers have come closer and closer to an answer.