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Energy transition: how coal mines could go solarNews

Energy transition: how coal mines could go solar

Bangkok, Thailand | AFP Disused coal mines could be refashioned to place vast fields of solar panels, a new report suggests, providing an unlikely solution to…
SourceSourceJune 18, 2025 Full article
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Norway launches flagship large-scale carbon capture and storage projectNews

Norway launches flagship large-scale carbon capture and storage project

Oslo, Norway | AFP Norway on Tuesday launched a flagship carbon capture and storage (CCS) project, a technology seen as crucial to curbing climate change but…
SourceSourceJune 17, 2025 Full article
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Amazon hydrological extremes intensifying, tree rings study showsClimate

Amazon hydrological extremes intensifying, tree rings study shows

Scientists have used clues locked into tree rings to reveal major changes in the Amazon’s rainfall cycle over the last 40 years: wet seasons are…
SourceSourceJune 17, 2025 Full article
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Global oil demand to dip in 2030, first drop since Covid: IEANews

Global oil demand to dip in 2030, first drop since Covid: IEA

Paris, France | AFP Global oil demand will fall slightly in 2030, its first drop since the 2020 Covid pandemic, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.…
SourceSourceJune 17, 2025 Full article
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Antarctic krill fishing overlaps with penguin and whale feeding hotspots, study showsScience

Antarctic krill fishing overlaps with penguin and whale feeding hotspots, study shows

Acoustic data reveal when and where fishing vessels compete with whales and penguins for krill in the Southern Ocean – and what this entails for…
SourceSourceJune 17, 2025 Full article
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Verdict due for Sweden’s ‘Queen of Trash’ over toxic wasteNews

Verdict due for Sweden’s ‘Queen of Trash’ over toxic waste

Stockholm, Sweden | AFP A court in Sweden will rule Tuesday in the country's biggest environmental crime trial, where a self-proclaimed "Queen of Trash" and four…
SourceSourceJune 17, 2025 Full article
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Greenwashing rife in EU aviation: consumer groupsNews

Greenwashing rife in EU aviation: consumer groups

Brussels, Belgium | AFP | Muser NewsDesk The European aviation industry is awash with misleading climate-related claims, consumer groups said Tuesday, over a year after the…
SourceSourceJune 17, 2025 Full article
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Climate change expected to worsen sleep apnea worldwideClimate

Climate change expected to worsen sleep apnea worldwide

Sleep apnea will become more common and more severe due to global warming, leading to increased health and economic burdens across the globe, warn Flinders…
SourceSourceJune 16, 2025 Full article
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UK commits £8 bn to flood defencesNews

UK commits £8 bn to flood defences

London, United Kingdom | AFP Britain's Labour government on Monday announced plans to invest almost £8 billion ($11 billion) on flood defences over the next 10…
SourceSourceJune 16, 2025 Full article
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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
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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
Hurricanes stir deep oxygen-poor waters, fueling microbial bloomsClimate

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
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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
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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