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Deep-water reefs in the Eastern Tropical Pacific face severe cold-water bleaching and mortalityClimate

Deep-water reefs in the Eastern Tropical Pacific face severe cold-water bleaching and mortality

New study highlights that deep coral ecosystems in the Eastern Pacific likely face a two-pronged threat over the 21st century: bleaching driven by the intrusion…
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Optimizing vertical farming by varying light, humidity, and other growing conditionsScience

Optimizing vertical farming by varying light, humidity, and other growing conditions

How can we provide healthy, vitamin-rich food to growing urban populations? One solution is to cultivate crops indoors, in stacked layers of growing platforms. Such…
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Japanese atomic bomb survivor group Nihon Hidankyo wins Nobel Peace PrizeNews

Japanese atomic bomb survivor group Nihon Hidankyo wins Nobel Peace Prize

By Pierre-Henry DESHAYES | AFP Oslo, Norway (UPDATED) - The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Japan's Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of Hiroshima…
SourceSourceOctober 11, 2024 Full article
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Nuclear powers have ‘responsibility’ to uphold nuclear taboo: Nobel committeeNews

Nuclear powers have ‘responsibility’ to uphold nuclear taboo: Nobel committee

Oslo, Norway (AFP) - The Norwegian Nobel Committee said Friday that nuclear powers had a special "responsibility" to uphold the taboo against the use of…
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Co-head of Japan’s Nihon Hidankyo says ‘never dreamt would win Nobel’News

Co-head of Japan’s Nihon Hidankyo says ‘never dreamt would win Nobel’

Tokyo, Japan (AFP) - The co-head of the Japanese anti-nuclear group that won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday expressed his surprise at being given…
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Cool tech for Hot cities: clothing that fights urban heatwavesScience

Cool tech for Hot cities: clothing that fights urban heatwaves

A team of international researchers has developed a natural fabric that urban residents could wear to counter rising temperatures in cities worldwide, caused by buildings,…
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Wildlife populations plunge 73% since 1970: WWFNews

Wildlife populations plunge 73% since 1970: WWF

Paris, France (AFP) - Wild populations of monitored animal species have plummeted over 70 percent in the last half-century, according to the latest edition of…
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Overshooting 1.5C risks ‘irreversible’ climate impact: studyClimate

Overshooting 1.5C risks ‘irreversible’ climate impact: study

Paris, France | AFP Any breach of what climate scientists agree is the safer limit on global warming would result in "irreversible consequences" for the…
SourceSourceOctober 9, 2024 Full article
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Nature conservation is a public good, not a marketNews

Nature conservation is a public good, not a market

By Euan Ritchie, Deakin University and Yung En Chee | University of Melbourne | 360info Private investment in conservation is always welcome but the evidence…
SourceSourceOctober 9, 2024 Full article
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Climate change made deadly Hurricane Helene more intense: studyNews

Climate change made deadly Hurricane Helene more intense: study

Washington, United States (AFP) - Climate change intensified the rains and winds of Hurricane Helene by around 10 percent, according to a study published Wednesday,…
SourceSourceOctober 9, 2024 Full article
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Hurricane Milton restrengthens to Category 5: NHCNews

Hurricane Milton restrengthens to Category 5: NHC

Washington, United States (AFP) - Hurricane Milton regained power Tuesday to become a Category 5 storm with maximum sustained winds of 165 mph (270 kph)…
SourceSourceOctober 8, 2024 Full article
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Deal on climate aid hangs in balance at UN COP29 summitNews

Deal on climate aid hangs in balance at UN COP29 summit

By Nick Perry | AFP Paris, France - Nations remain in deadlock over a crucial pact on climate aid, with divisions over who pays, and…
SourceSourceOctober 8, 2024 Full article
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Florida orders evacuations as Hurricane Milton strengthensNews

Florida orders evacuations as Hurricane Milton strengthens

Washington, United States | AFP (UPDATED) - Survivors of deadly Hurricane Helene along the Florida coast were ordered to evacuate again on Monday as authorities…
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Milton becomes hurricane on path to storm-battered Florida: NHCNews

Milton becomes hurricane on path to storm-battered Florida: NHC

Miami, United States (AFP) - Storm Milton became a hurricane Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said, as it barrelled toward the western coast of Florida…
SourceSourceOctober 6, 2024 Full article
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Flash flooding kills three in northern ThailandNews

Flash flooding kills three in northern Thailand

Bangkok, Thailand (AFP) - Flash flooding in popular Thai tourist hotspot Chiang Mai has killed three people, a health official said Sunday, as visitors evacuated…
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Muser Press – New Research Articles Week 40, 2024Science

Muser Press – New Research Articles Week 40, 2024

The impact of environmental shocks due to climate change on intimate partner violence: A structural equation model of data from 156 countries Climate change-related landslides,…
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How cities can avoid overtourism before it hitsNews

How cities can avoid overtourism before it hits

Kathleen Andereck | Arizona State University in Tempe The best solution is prevention and a sustainable tourism plan goes a long way in managing the…
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Search continues for missing in deadly Bosnia floodsNews

Search continues for missing in deadly Bosnia floods

By Elvis BARUKCIC, with Mina PEJAKOVIC in Belgrade | AFP Jablanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina - The search for dozens of people reported missing in floods…
SourceSourceOctober 5, 2024 Full article
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Supreme Court lets stand rules to curb mercury, methane emissionsNews

Supreme Court lets stand rules to curb mercury, methane emissions

Washington, United States (AFP) - The US Supreme Court declined on Friday to block environmental regulations aimed at reducing harmful emissions of mercury from power…
SourceSourceOctober 5, 2024 Full article
Taiwan cleans up after Typhoon Krathon batters southNews

Taiwan cleans up after Typhoon Krathon batters south

Taipei, Taiwan (AFP) - Workers removed felled trees and swept up shattered glass in southern Taiwan on Friday as Typhoon Krathon was downgraded to a…
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Long-running Arctic study reveals new insights on carbon release from thawing permafrostScience

Long-running Arctic study reveals new insights on carbon release from thawing permafrost

Utilizing one of the longest-running ecosystem experiments in the Arctic, a Colorado State University-led team of researchers have developed a better understanding of the interplay…
SourceSourceOctober 3, 2024 Full article
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Typhoon Krathon makes landfall in Taiwan’s south: weather agencyNews

Typhoon Krathon makes landfall in Taiwan’s south: weather agency

Kaohsiung, Taiwan (AFP) - Typhoon Krathon made landfall in Taiwan's south on Thursday, the island's weather agency said, after unleashing strong gusts and rains that…
SourceSourceOctober 3, 2024 Full article
Environmental well-being: a key to women’s health across culturesScience

Environmental well-being: a key to women’s health across cultures

Global evidence has revealed that women’s environmental quality of life is key to their overall quality of life and health, according to a study published…
SourceSourceOctober 3, 2024 Full article
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Thunderstorms are a ‘boiling pot’ of gamma rays, scientists findNews

Thunderstorms are a ‘boiling pot’ of gamma rays, scientists find

By Pierre Celerier | AFP Paris, France - Big thunderstorms continuously emit gamma rays that are undetectable from the ground, two studies said on Wednesday,…
SourceSourceOctober 3, 2024 Full article