Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave A U.S. inspection of a facility in Ecuador that produced bags of contaminated applesauce linked to at least 125 cases of suspected lead poisoning in children found “extremely high” levels of the metal in a key ingredient: cinnamon. The Food and Drug Administration said Monday that tested … [Read more…]
This paper in the journal Science (new window) traces CO2 levels from 66 million years B.C. BC to today’s global warming with unprecedented precision. “This shows us the extent to which what we are doing is really, really unusual in Earth’s history,” lead author Baerbel Hoenisch, a researcher at Columbia University in New York, told … [Read more…]
Current levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have not been reached on Earth for 14 million years, according to a major study that highlights the inhospitable climate humanity is heading towards. This paper in the journal Science (New Window) tracks CO2 levels from 66 million years B.C. BC to today’s global warming with unprecedented … [Read more…]