The Problem with Offshore Wind Farms
A recent report examines how offshore wind farms could affect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.
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A recent report examines how offshore wind farms could affect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales.
The U.S. Supreme Court has turned down an application by energy companies to change the venue of a multibillion-dollar coastal erosion trial set to begin Nov. 27 in Cameron Parish.
For hundreds of years, business owners engaged in New Jersey’s commercial fisheries industry have weathered adversity, from coastal storms to species shifts.
Evolution of plants, animals: “A very special case within a far larger natural phenomenon.” Similar marvels occur with stars, planets, minerals, other complex systems; When a novel configuration works well and function improves, evolution occurs
<p>A paper in the prestigious <em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</em> today describes “a missing law of nature,” recognizing for the first time an important norm within the natural world’s workings. </p> <p>In essence, the new law states that complex natural systems evolve to states of greater patterning, diversity, and complexity. In other words, evolution is not limited to life on Earth, it also occurs in other massively complex systems, from planets and stars to atoms, minerals, and more.</p&g...