There is unrest in the forest. There is trouble with the trees. Nothing spells doom like a positive feedback effect and global warming:
The world's forests are taking longer than expected to recover from increasingly frequent droughts, meaning their ability to store climate-changing carbon dioxide is smaller than previously thought, Utah University researchers said on Thursday. If forests are absorbing less carbon dioxide, then the effects of climate change will be worse than past models had predicted, the Utah study published in the journal Science said.
“This really matters because in the future droughts are expected to increase in frequency and severity due to climate change,” William Anderegg, the study's lead author, said in a statement.
- It's a tiny robot! I'm telling you man, the strong robot economy is coming.
- I always liked tiny trees, too.
- A rocky exoplanet resides just 21 light-years away.
- Anti-vaxxers reach 100,000 signatures on White House petition. White Hous trolls anti-vaxxers with video and statement:
I understand that there are families that in some cases are concerned about the effect of vaccinations. The science is, you know, pretty indisputable. We’ve looked at this again and again. There is every reason to get vaccinated, but there aren’t reasons to not.
- First surface maps of Pluto and Charon now available. And speaking of the outer solar system, Pluto ... and beyond!
NASA willing, it might only be a few short years before New Horizons zooms up on another unexplored icy target—another distant, frozen world, revolving in perpetual twilight on the fringe of our neighborhood.