After
assessing the birds» antioxidant levels, amount
of DNA damage, and
body condition, the researchers were surprised to find that most
of the birds, like the hawfinch
pictured above, seemed to benefit from the chronic exposure to radiation.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a Nobel Prize - winning scientific
body tasked by the United Nations with
assessing the risk
of human - caused climate change, «An increasing
body of observations gives a collective
picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system....