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Increasingly intense wildfires are associated with a warming world. Now, researchers have suggested that these raging flames deliver some counterintuitive consequences. Recent findings suggest that wildfire smoke pluming from boreal forests could reduce global warming by about 12 percent. Atmospheric scientist Dargan Frierson was “expecting the opposite to happen.” It turns out that these blazes set off a cascade of cooling around the world, but it doesn’t mean they’re “somehow benign or benevolent,” writes Syris Valentine for Nautilus.
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• A 2,000-year-old plaster “puzzle” revealed vibrant frescoes at the site of a Roman villa. Read on the BBC→
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What Made Early Humans Smart
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