From Museum Drawers, Scientists Uncover Our Sooty Past
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Century-old museum bird specimens reveal that the air over America’s Manufacturing Midwest during the late-19th and 20th…
A selection of new climate related research articles is shown below. (Figure is from paper #16.) Climate change…
This story was originally published by CityLab and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In March 2016, a…
In March 2016, a flock of pigeons took to London’s skies with petite vests strapped to their backs. The tech firm Plume Labs…
Researchers have long studied atmospheric black carbon, or soot, by drilling and examining ice cores from frigid regions. Black…
This is a shortened version of an address I gave to the Boobooks club in Melbourne earlier this week. The Boobooks is a dining…
When gliding through our old and rusty skies, You filtered out the wheezing, blackened air; A century of progress built on lies…
Horned Larks are cute little songbirds with white bellies and yellow chins -- at least, now they are. A hundred years ago, at…
When gliding through our old and rusty skies, You filtered out the wheezing, blackened air; A century of progress built on lies…
As the male field sparrow soared through the smoke-laden Illinois sky on May 6, 1906, it had no idea that the end was near. It…
A story of pollution hides in the grime of museums' birds specimens
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Back in the day when Chicago and Pittsburg were the world's Beijing and New Delhi.
NewsThe layers of soot trapped in bird feathers has now provided a vital “air filter” time capsule of when industrial American…
Enterprising researchers working at the Field Museum in Chicago dusted off a collection of Horned Larks to get a better look at…
Horned Larks collected in Illinois between 1904 and 1916 (left) and California and British Columbia between 1903 and 1922 (right…