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Amazon trees reveal survival tactics under intense sunlight and heat
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Amazon trees reveal survival tactics under intense sunlight and heatClimate

Amazon trees reveal survival tactics under intense sunlight and heat

Amazon canopy trees adjust their energy use under extreme light and drought, revealing critical limits for photosynthesis and implications for satellite monitoring Summary: In the…
SourceSourceJune 15, 2025 Full article
Arctic plant life shifts in complex patterns as climate warms
Image: Tundra plants can eek out an existence in the very short summers of the Canadian High Arctic such as here on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut
Arctic plant life shifts in complex patterns as climate warmsClimate

Arctic plant life shifts in complex patterns as climate warms

Researchers tracked more than 2,000 plant communities over four decades, and found that some species thrived while others declined Summary: In a massive, four-decade study…
SourceSourceJune 14, 2025 Full article
Summer solstice may guide plant growth, but climate change throws off the signal
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Summer solstice may guide plant growth, but climate change throws off the signalScience

Summer solstice may guide plant growth, but climate change throws off the signal

UBC researchers find the summer solstice may guide plant growth and reproduction, but climate change could make this once-reliable signal less effective Summary: The summer…
SourceSourceJune 12, 2025 Full article
Value oceans, don’t plunder them, French Polynesia leader tells AFP
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Value oceans, don’t plunder them, French Polynesia leader tells AFPNews

Value oceans, don’t plunder them, French Polynesia leader tells AFP

Nice, France | AFP French Polynesia pledged this week to create the world's largest marine protected area to safeguard its seas -- and it hopes to…
SourceSourceJune 12, 2025 Full article
Breakthrough boron-doped catalyst could cut green hydrogen costs
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Breakthrough boron-doped catalyst could cut green hydrogen costsScience

Breakthrough boron-doped catalyst could cut green hydrogen costs

Scientists developed a new tunable boron-doped cobalt phosphide catalyst with low cost and high efficiency for electrochemical water-splitting Summary: Producing green hydrogen at scale has…
SourceSourceJune 12, 2025 Full article
Image of the day: Urban growth meets the border in coastal Lomé
Satellite Image: Lomé, Togo
Image of the day: Urban growth meets the border in coastal LoméNews

Image of the day: Urban growth meets the border in coastal Lomé

Lomé, the capital of Togo, stretches along the Gulf of Guinea in the country’s far southwest, where West Africa’s Atlantic coastline meets the Ghanaian border.…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJune 12, 2025 Full article
Child brain development shaped by prenatal exposure to extreme climate events
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Child brain development shaped by prenatal exposure to extreme climate eventsClimate

Child brain development shaped by prenatal exposure to extreme climate events

A new study by Graduate Center researchers looks at the impact of in utero exposure to both extreme heat and a natural disaster Summary: Children…
SourceSourceJune 12, 2025 Full article
Climate Science Digest: June 12, 2025
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Climate Science Digest: June 12, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: June 12, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (June 12, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJune 12, 2025 Full article
Emperor penguin population shrinking faster than expected in Antarctica
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Emperor penguin population shrinking faster than expected in AntarcticaScience

Emperor penguin population shrinking faster than expected in Antarctica

Antarctica’s emperor penguin population may be decreasing faster than some of the most pessimistic predictions Summary: Emperor penguins may be vanishing from Antarctica more quickly…
SourceSourceJune 11, 2025 Full article
Greenland ice melted much faster than average in May heatwave: scientists
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Greenland ice melted much faster than average in May heatwave: scientistsClimate

Greenland ice melted much faster than average in May heatwave: scientists

Copenhagen, Denmark | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Greenland's ice sheet melted 17 times faster than the past average during a May heatwave that also hit Iceland,…
SourceSourceJune 11, 2025 Full article
North Sea oil plans clash with Paris climate targets, UCL study warns
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North Sea oil plans clash with Paris climate targets, UCL study warnsClimate

North Sea oil plans clash with Paris climate targets, UCL study warns

Opening new North Sea oil and gas fields is incompatible with achieving the Paris Climate Agreement goals of limiting warming to 1.5°C or holding warming…
SourceSourceJune 10, 2025 Full article
Mount Sinai Health System earns several prestigious national honors for environmental excellence
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Mount Sinai Health System earns several prestigious national honors for environmental excellenceNews

Mount Sinai Health System earns several prestigious national honors for environmental excellence

One of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area receives three major sustainability awards from Practice Greenhealth Mount Sinai Health System…
SourceSourceJune 9, 2025 Full article
MBARI research and technology play integral role in new Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences
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MBARI research and technology play integral role in new Decade of Action for Cryospheric SciencesNews

MBARI research and technology play integral role in new Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences

International collaborations leverage MBARI’s expertise and advanced technology to better understand polar ecosystems This year marks the opening of the United Nations Decade of Action…
SourceSourceJune 9, 2025 Full article
Ancient Pacific sediments hold key to future climate research
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Ancient Pacific sediments hold key to future climate researchClimate

Ancient Pacific sediments hold key to future climate research

Deep sea sediments contain treasure troves of information about marine ecosystems and past climate scenarios, yet remain understudied clues into Earth’s environmental future Summary: Ancient…
SourceSourceJune 8, 2025 Full article
Image of the day: Grassland revival brings rare species back to České Středohoří
Satellite Image: Central Bohemian Uplands, Czech Republic
Image of the day: Grassland revival brings rare species back to České StředohoříNews

Image of the day: Grassland revival brings rare species back to České Středohoří

From above, the patchwork of grassland and woodland in the Central Bohemian Uplands of the Czech Republic tells a quiet story of ecological recovery. Captured…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJune 7, 2025 Full article
Hurricanes stir deep oxygen-poor waters, fueling microbial blooms
Satellite Image: Hurricane Bud, shown here over Baja in 2018, extended across Mexico and left some surprising changes in its wake, UC Merced researchers found
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Hurricanes stir deep oxygen-poor waters, fueling microbial blooms

With careful planning and a little luck, researchers found a surprising upside to hurricanes after a Category 4 storm disrupted their expedition off the coast…
SourceSourceJune 7, 2025 Full article
Image of the day: Rising seas threaten the narrow coast of Puntarenas
Satellite Image: Puntarenas, Costa Rica
Image of the day: Rising seas threaten the narrow coast of PuntarenasNews

Image of the day: Rising seas threaten the narrow coast of Puntarenas

Puntarenas, Costa Rica stretches along a slim finger of land jutting into the Pacific, clearly visible in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image captured on 20 March…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJune 6, 2025 Full article
USP and FAPESP bring innovative technologies to international startup fair in France
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USP and FAPESP bring innovative technologies to international startup fair in FranceNews

USP and FAPESP bring innovative technologies to international startup fair in France

VivaTech is one of Europe's leading technology and startup events; USP and FAPESP will take researchers and disruptive technologies to the event in the areas…
SourceSourceJune 6, 2025 Full article
Climate Science Digest: June 6, 2025
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Climate Science Digest: June 6, 2025Science

Climate Science Digest: June 6, 2025

Explore the latest insights from top science journals in the Muser Press daily roundup (June 6, 2025), featuring impactful research on climate change challenges. In…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJune 6, 2025 Full article
Slain UK journalist’s book on saving the Amazon published
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Slain UK journalist’s book on saving the Amazon publishedNews

Slain UK journalist’s book on saving the Amazon published

London, United Kingdom | AFP | Muser NewsDesk Three years after UK journalist Dom Phillips was murdered, his widow and colleagues have published the book he…
SourceSourceJune 6, 2025 Full article
South-West Pacific faces rising seas, record heat: WMO report
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South-West Pacific faces rising seas, record heat: WMO reportClimate

South-West Pacific faces rising seas, record heat: WMO report

Unprecedented Ocean warming engulfed the South-West Pacific in 2024, harming ecosystems and economies, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which…
SourceSourceJune 6, 2025 Full article
Warming climate boosts antibiotic resistance in global soils
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Warming climate boosts antibiotic resistance in global soilsScience

Warming climate boosts antibiotic resistance in global soils

A new international study involving researchers from Durham University has revealed that climate change is accelerating the rate of development and global abundances of antibiotic…
SourceSourceJune 6, 2025 Full article
Image of the day: Smoke from Canadian wildfires spreads across Hudson Bay
Satellite Image: Nunavut and the Hudson Bay regions, Canada
Image of the day: Smoke from Canadian wildfires spreads across Hudson BayNews

Image of the day: Smoke from Canadian wildfires spreads across Hudson Bay

Wildfires burning across western Canada since May 2025 have forced thousands to evacuate and filled the skies with dense smoke. Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba have…
Muser NewsDeskMuser NewsDeskJune 5, 2025 Full article
Older companies lead the way on sustainability, new research shows
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Older companies lead the way on sustainability, new research showsScience

Older companies lead the way on sustainability, new research shows

In a new article published in Frontiers in Organizational Psychology, Daria Haner, Dr Yilei Wang, Dr Deniz Ones, and Dr Stephan Dilchert, Dr Yagizhan Yazar,…
SourceSourceJune 5, 2025 Full article