A warmer climate will also be a drier climate, with negative impacts on forest growth | Peter B. Reich

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Oct. 9, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Warmer temperatures brought on by climate change will lead to drier soils and reduce tree photosynthesis and growth in forests later this century, ...

The Two Party Food Fight | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 8, 2018 File: Yoo memo.pdf: The Torture Memos, sometimes called the Bybee Memo or 8/1/02 Interrogation Opinion, was a term originally a ...

Global sea level could rise 15 meters by 2300 | Benjamin P. Horton

Parts of New Jersey and New York with 8 feet of sea-level rise. An almost 8-foot rise is possible by 2100 under a worst-case scenario, according to projections. The light-blue areas show the extent o ...

UN report on global warming carries life-or-death warning | Seth Borenstein

Oct. 8, 2018 (Phys.org) -- Preventing an extra single degree of heat could make a life-or-death difference in the next few decades for multitudes of people and ecosystems on this fast-warming planet, ...

The early universe was a fluid quark-gluon plasma | You Zhou

Fig. 1 An event from the first Xenon-Xenon collision at the Large Hadron Collider at the top energy of the Large Hadron Collider (5.44 TeV ) registered by ALICE . Every colored track (The blue lines) ...

The Suffocation of Democracy | Christopher R. Browning

Donald Trump at the First In Nation Republican Leadership Summit, Nashua, New Hampshire. Photo by Michael Vadon, Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)Oct. 25, 2018 Issue (The New York Review of Books) -- As a histor ...

A leading Holocaust historian just seriously compared the US to Nazi Germany | Zack Beauchamp

Mitch McConnell“If the US has someone whom historians will look back on as the gravedigger of American democracy, it is Mitch McConnell.” Oct. 5, 2018 (Vox.com) -- Usually, comparisons between Donald ...

Oblivious to Empire | Philip A. Farruggio

Philip A. FarruggioPhilip A. Farruggio -- World News Trust Oct. 6, 2018 If one studies many of Alfred Hitchcock's films, there is a consistent observation by the director about the public in general. ...

Nuclear Calendar -- October 4, 2018 | FCNL

Friends Committee on National Legislation October 4, 2018 Oct. 4 9:00-11:45 a.m., Senator Joni Ernst (IA); Dakota Wood, Heritage Foundation; Thomas Spoehr, Heritage Foundation, "Release of the 2019 I ...

China used tiny chips in US computers to steal secrets: report | Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley

Image source: ezzat.info Chinese spies reportedly used tiny chips in computer equipment in data centers to steal U.S. corporate secrets Oct. 4, 2018 (TechXplore) -- Tiny chips inserted in U.S. comput ...

America and Russia, Part I: Stirrings in the Borderlands | John Michael Greer

Oct. 3, 2018 (EcoSophia.net) -- To my mind, one of the main sources of collective stupidity in modern American society is our pervasive bad habit of short-term thinking. It’s embarrassingly rare for ...