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According to a NOAA press release dated May 6, 2015 and with the title above, global carbon dioxide concentrations have surpassed 400 parts per million for the first month since measurements began: For the first time since we began tracking carbon dioxide in the global atmosphere, the monthly global average concentration of this greenhouse gas surpassed 400 parts per million in March 2015, according to NOAA’s latest results. “It was...

The following is a Science Daily News article written by Eric Hand and posted on May 4, 2015 with the title above: There’s diamond under them thar plants. A geologist has discovered a thorny, palmlike plant in Liberia that seems to grow only on top of kimberlite pipes—columns of volcanic rock hundreds of meters across that extend deep into Earth, left by ancient eruptions that exhumed diamonds from the mantle. If the plant...

This year’s Staff Celebration Week included special events such as the annual Ice Cream Social, a plethora of food trucks on Farmers Market Wednesday (with gourmet offerings ranging from lobster to grilled cheese), the Staff Social and Spring Arts & Crafts Bazaar, and the annual Chancellor’s Staff Luncheon on the Faculty Club Green. Geography graduate students and faculty showed their appreciation of the...