Life adapts — fish evolved from salt to fresh water in just fifty years
In 1964 an earthquake made some parts of the Pacific into ponds on a few islands. Fifty years later and the fish in those ponds are now freshwater fish. Apparently the genes for dealing with that sort...
View ArticleCorals already have the genes to survive another 250 years of climate change
… A new paper finds that there is already enough genetic variety spread across the Great Barrier Reef to adapt to the imagined “unprecedented” warming coming in the next two centuries. We don’t need to...
View ArticleCorals use epigenetic tricks to adapt to warmer and “more acidic” water
… After half a billion million years of climate change, I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that life on Earth (and specifically corals) have so many ways to cope with the climate changing. After all,...
View ArticleThe Anthropocene: all that CO2 and the only mammal extinction is a brown rat...
Where’s the apocalypse: With all the forecasts of doom, is this it? Global Lament is rising for the small brown rat (Melomys rubicola) lost off a desert island no one heard of til morning tea today....
View ArticleA million species face extinction? Time to burn fossil fuels to save them
A baby-IPCC of biology has just been born The new 145-expert-committee has just uttered its first words, and the headlines are Hollywood-apocalyptic: A million species face extinction. Daddy-UN is...
View ArticleAdapting to climate change “it’s in our genes”— Another reason to ignore the...
Two different models predict two totally different futures. On the left, catastrophic extinction. On the right, happy bats. Click to enlarge Yesterday a UN supercommittee of 145 scientists from 50...
View ArticleSupercomputer prophesy of the Sixth Mass Extinction coming “like an asteroid”...
Art by NoName_13 By Jo Nova The prophesy of the Sixth Mass extinction has popped up again with hyperbolic modelling to scare us out of our money and just in time for a UN convention. As Steve Milloy...
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