Jan. 31, 2019 – Little life could endure the Earth-spanning cataclysm known as the Great Dying, but plants may have suffered its wrath long before many animal counterparts, says new research led by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. About 252 million years ago, with the planet’s continental crust mashed into the supercontinent called Pangaea, volcanoes in […]
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Report: A single nuclear warhead could cause devastating climate change costing a billion lives
July 17, 2017 – As the notion of nuclear hostilities leaps from its old, Cold War perch into modern debate, new calculations by University of Nebraska-Lincoln researchers show that even a limited nuclear strike could have disastrous global consequences. In a new report, a group of experts led by Adam Liska, a biological systems engineer […]