Chicago penguin pair tours local attractions
By Thomas Smith Medill Reports Most couples were hunkering down amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but Izzy and Darwin spent the lockdown visiting some of Chicago’s best museums. The pair of magellanic penguins toured the Field Museum of Natural History in July and got to preview the Museum of Contemporary Art’s new Just Connect exhibit before […]
Organism remains help scientists understand climate
By Thomas Smith Medill Reports Scientists are making discoveries about the Earth’s climate by studying single-celled protists that lived hundreds of thousands of years ago. Shells from foraminifera, a type of protist, have differing chemical compositions that reflect the planet’s climate. Foraminifera still exist in the oceans today, and analyzing the preserved shells lets scientists […]
Closing the CO2 window: New research is precise about human contributions to climate change
By Thomas Smith Medill Reports While carbon and oxygen are necessary for human life, CO2 is also a thermostat for the planet and carbon dioxide buildup in Earth’s atmosphere has the potential to cause irreversible damage to the planet’s climate. Although the window to counteract human contributions to global warming is closing, scientists are more […]
