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Potato juice to supply bio-based fatty acids for European industryNews

Potato juice to supply bio-based fatty acids for European industry

PACE will retrofit part of a Dutch processing facility to demonstrate industrial production from an underused side-stream Summary: Potato juice from the potato processing industry…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJuly 23, 2026 Full article
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Climate change making Europe drought ‘more severe’: studyClimate

Climate change making Europe drought ‘more severe’: study

Paris, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Human-caused climate change has intensified a drought across Europe with extreme heat, rather than low rainfall driving the exceptionally…
SourceSourceJuly 23, 2026 Full article
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Acid mine drainage could greatly increase metal mining carbon footprintsClimate

Acid mine drainage could greatly increase metal mining carbon footprints

Startling result in the first comprehensive quantification of CO₂ emissions from acid mine drainage neutralization for metal mining in academic peer reviewed literature. Summary: A…
SourceSourceJuly 22, 2026 Full article
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EU watchdog reduces safe level of exposure to ‘forever chemical’ TFANews

EU watchdog reduces safe level of exposure to ‘forever chemical’ TFA

Rome, Italy | AFP | Muser NewsDesk The EU's food safety agency said Wednesday it has dramatically reduced the acceptable daily intake level of the so-called…
SourceSourceJuly 22, 2026 Full article
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SOWISE+ project to demonstrate urban waste biorefinery at industrial scaleNews

SOWISE+ project to demonstrate urban waste biorefinery at industrial scale

Turning urban waste into high-value bio-based materials through an industrial-scale biorefinery Summary: Urban biowaste and post-consumer absorbent hygiene products will provide the raw materials for…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJuly 22, 2026 Full article
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France sees record area burned by wildfires by mid-July: monitorNews

France sees record area burned by wildfires by mid-July: monitor

Paris, France | AFP More than 42,000 hectares have burned in France by mid-July this year, surpassing the previous record set in 2022, according to the…
SourceSourceJuly 21, 2026 Full article
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Uproar in France over reintroduction of bee-harming pesticidesNews

Uproar in France over reintroduction of bee-harming pesticides

Paris, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Environmentalists in France were outraged Tuesday as parliament looked set to authorise some farmers to use two bee-harming pesticides…
SourceSourceJuly 21, 2026 Full article
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Who gets published in elite science journals? Prestige and country play a roleScience

Who gets published in elite science journals? Prestige and country play a role

Analysis of 110,303 submissions examines editorial screening and peer review at top-tier science journals Summary: Publication rates at two major general science journals varied substantially…
SourceSourceJuly 21, 2026 Full article
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Great Barrier Reef at risk of ‘collapse’, scientists warnNews

Great Barrier Reef at risk of ‘collapse’, scientists warn

Auckland, New Zealand | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Australia's Great Barrier Reef is at a very high risk of extreme and widespread bleaching and "ecosystem collapse"…
SourceSourceJuly 21, 2026 Full article
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Canada faces one of its most intense fire seasonsNews

Canada faces one of its most intense fire seasons

Montreal, Canada | AFP | Muser NewsDesk With nearly 1,000 active fires and an area as large as Belgium already burned, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney…
SourceSourceJuly 20, 2026 Full article
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Swiss researchers hoard vast trove of NASA climate dataNews

Swiss researchers hoard vast trove of NASA climate data

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Researchers have copied massive quantities of publicly-available climate and environmental data from NASA onto a Swiss supercomputer to train…
SourceSourceJuly 20, 2026 Full article
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Aquatic deoxygenation threatens Earth system stabilityScience

Aquatic deoxygenation threatens Earth system stability

Scripps-led review calls for aquatic deoxygenation to be recognized as a critical planetary process under threat Summary: Declining oxygen concentrations in oceans and inland waters…
SourceSourceJuly 20, 2026 Full article
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Himalayan forests reveal two paths to storing carbonClimate

Himalayan forests reveal two paths to storing carbon

New research reveals altitude-dependent carbon storage mechanisms in diverse forest ecosystems, offering targeted climate mitigation insights Summary: High in the Garhwal Himalayas, deodar forests retain…
SourceSourceJuly 20, 2026 Full article
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US further weakens endangered species protectionsNews

US further weakens endangered species protections

Washington, United States | AFP | Muser NewsDesk President Donald Trump's administration on Friday finalized two more rules curbing the landmark Endangered Species Act, further diminishing…
SourceSourceJuly 18, 2026 Full article
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Canadian wildfire smoke linked to changes in New York bird sightingsScience

Canadian wildfire smoke linked to changes in New York bird sightings

UB study compared air quality data with birdwatching reports, including during historic 2023 wildfire season Summary: Smoke drifting from Canadian wildfires may make many breeding…
SourceSourceJuly 17, 2026 Full article
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With climate ambitions in question, EU reforms carbon marketNews

With climate ambitions in question, EU reforms carbon market

Brussels, Belgium | AFP | Muser NewsDesk The European Union on Friday unveils reforms of its carbon market, after fierce wrangling between countries, industry and activists…
SourceSourceJuly 17, 2026 Full article
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Hazardous Canadian wildfire smoke choking millions in USNews

Hazardous Canadian wildfire smoke choking millions in US

New York, United States | AFP | Muser NewsDesk The Manhattan skyline was obscured by thick haze and Chicago closed its beaches Thursday as out-of-control Canadian…
SourceSourceJuly 17, 2026 Full article
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Top US science body readies climate reportNews

Top US science body readies climate report

Washington, United States | AFP | Muser NewsDesk A leading US science body will launch a major report Thursday on how precisely specific extreme weather events…
SourceSourceJuly 16, 2026 Full article
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Satellite images reveal links between sea ice and penguin dietsScience

Satellite images reveal links between sea ice and penguin diets

The first continent-wide study to use satellite observations links changes in sea ice to Antarctic food webs and long-term penguin population trends Summary: Three decades…
SourceSourceJuly 13, 2026 Full article
Fire globe - abstract (s. climate, temperatures, forever chemicals, wildfires)
Planes fight fire in Fontainebleau forest near ParisNews

Planes fight fire in Fontainebleau forest near Paris

Le Vaudoué, France | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Firefighting aircraft battled to contain a wildfire raging in a forest south of Paris for a second day…
SourceSourceJuly 13, 2026 Full article
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Trees for hotter cities: new approach can bolster community input in meeting targetsNews

Trees for hotter cities: new approach can bolster community input in meeting targets

Efforts to plant more trees in cities could be boosted thanks to a new tool for planners and community groups, published by an international group…
SourceSourceJuly 13, 2026 Full article
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More than 2,700 died as result of heatwaves in England, researchers sayNews

More than 2,700 died as result of heatwaves in England, researchers say

London, United Kingdom | AFP | Muser NewsDesk At least 2,700 people died in England and Wales as a result of heatwaves that struck in May…
SourceSourceJuly 13, 2026 Full article
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Climate Science Digest: July 10, 2026Science

Climate Science Digest: July 10, 2026

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press roundup (July 10, 2026), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In brief:…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJuly 10, 2026 Full article
Satellite Image: On March 27, 2025, Landsat 8's Operational Land Imager (OLI) captured a break in the dust cloud over the southern Tarim Basin, briefly revealing the snow-covered peaks of the Tekilik Shan as a powerful spring dust storm swept across western China
Intense sand and dust storms struck China, US in 2025: UNNews

Intense sand and dust storms struck China, US in 2025: UN

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | Muser NewsDesk China and the southern United States were hit last year by some of the worst sand and dust storms…
SourceSourceJuly 10, 2026 Full article