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Study Reveals Shifting Landscape and Driving Forces in China’s Forest-Grassland Transition ZoneScience

Study Reveals Shifting Landscape and Driving Forces in China’s Forest-Grassland Transition Zone

By Chinese Academy of Sciences Researchers from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have published a new study detailing significant…
SourceSourceJune 15, 2024 Full article
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New fabric makes urban heat islands more bearableScience

New fabric makes urban heat islands more bearable

By Paul Dailing, University of Chicago This year has already seen massive heatwaves around the globe, with cities in Mexico, India, Pakistan and Oman hitting…
SourceSourceJune 14, 2024 Full article
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Marine heatwaves devastate red gorgonians in the Medes IslandsScience

Marine heatwaves devastate red gorgonians in the Medes Islands

By University of Barcelona The increase in the frequency and intensity of marine heatwaves in recent decades is one of the effects of global climate…
SourceSourceJune 14, 2024 Full article
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Ancient ocean slowdown warns of future climate chaosScience

Ancient ocean slowdown warns of future climate chaos

By Jules Bernstein, University of California - Riverside When it comes to the ocean’s response to global warming, we’re not in entirely uncharted waters. A…
SourceSourceJune 14, 2024 Full article
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Public more confident connecting increasing heat, wildfires with climate change than other extreme weather events, study findsClimateScience

Public more confident connecting increasing heat, wildfires with climate change than other extreme weather events, study finds

By Molly Rosbach, Oregon State University Oregon State University researchers found that U.S. adults are fairly confident in linking wildfires and heat to climate change,…
SourceSourceJune 14, 2024 Full article
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Research Finds Dolphins With Elevated Mercury Levels in Florida and Georgia, USScience

Research Finds Dolphins With Elevated Mercury Levels in Florida and Georgia, US

By NIST In a study with potential implications for the oceans and human health, scientists reported elevated mercury levels in dolphins in the U.S. Southeast,…
SourceSourceJune 14, 2024 Full article
Millions of insects migrate through 30-metre Pyrenees passScience

Millions of insects migrate through 30-metre Pyrenees pass

By Alex Morrison, University of Exeter Over 17 million insects migrate each year through a single mountain pass on the border between France and Spain,…
SourceSourceJune 14, 2024 Full article
A mountainous mystery uncovered in SA’s pink sandsScience

A mountainous mystery uncovered in SA’s pink sands

By Johnny von Einem | University of Adelaide Deposits of deep-pink sand washing up on South Australian shores shed new light on when the Australian…
SourceSourceJune 13, 2024 Full article
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Humans are the elephant in the room where conservation is debatedScience

Humans are the elephant in the room where conservation is debated

By Sue Nichols | Michigan State University Studies working to map conservation historically have left humans out of the equation. This study proposes ways to…
SourceSourceJune 13, 2024 Full article
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Cocaine trafficking threatens critical bird habitatsScience

Cocaine trafficking threatens critical bird habitats

By Pat Leonard Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Cornell University In addition to its human consequences, cocaine trafficking harms the environment and threatens habitats important…
SourceSourceJune 13, 2024 Full article
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Western Agricultural Communities Need Water Conservation Strategies to Adapt to Future ShortagesScience

Western Agricultural Communities Need Water Conservation Strategies to Adapt to Future Shortages

By Desert Research Institute The Western U.S. is heavily reliant on mountain snowpacks and their gradual melt for water storage and supply, and climate change…
SourceSourceJune 13, 2024 Full article
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Soil bacteria respire more CO2 after eating non-sugar organic matterScience

Soil bacteria respire more CO2 after eating non-sugar organic matter

By Amanda Morris, Northwestern University When soil microbes eat plant matter, the digested food follows one of two pathways. Either the microbe uses the food…
SourceSourceJune 12, 2024 Full article
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Research signals major milestone in cutting harmful gases that deplete ozone and worsen global warmingScience

Research signals major milestone in cutting harmful gases that deplete ozone and worsen global warming

By University of Bristol A new study has revealed significant progress in the drive to reduce levels in the atmosphere of chemicals that destroy Earth’s…
SourceSourceJune 11, 2024 Full article
New discovery reveals unexpected ocean algae help cool the EarthClimateScience

New discovery reveals unexpected ocean algae help cool the Earth

By University of East Anglia A common type of ocean algae plays a significant role in producing a massively abundant compound that helps cool the…
SourceSourceJune 11, 2024 Full article
Safeguarding peer review to ensure quality at scaleScience

Safeguarding peer review to ensure quality at scale

By Mirjam Eckert, Chief Publishing Officer | Frontiers In the context of climate emergency, making scientific research open has never been more important. But for…
SourceSourceJune 11, 2024 Full article
Keeping the lights onScience

Keeping the lights on

By Osaka University Researchers at Osaka University study the impact of carbon impurities on the quality of gallium nitride crystals, and determine the threshold concentration…
SourceSourceJune 10, 2024 Full article
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Tiny tropical puddle frogs show that protecting genetic variation is essential for animals to survive the climate crisisScience

Tiny tropical puddle frogs show that protecting genetic variation is essential for animals to survive the climate crisis

By Angharad Brewer Gillham | Frontiers The climate crisis is changing habitats quickly, forcing animals to adapt to catch up. Populations of a species that…
SourceSourceJune 10, 2024 Full article
Fighting fires from space in record time: how AI could prevent a repeat of Australia’s devastating wildfiresNewsScience

Fighting fires from space in record time: how AI could prevent a repeat of Australia’s devastating wildfires

By University of South Australia Australian scientists are getting closer to detecting bushfires in record time, thanks to cube satellites with onboard AI now able…
SourceSourceJune 7, 2024 Full article
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Exploring three frontiers in marine biomass and blue carbon captureScience

Exploring three frontiers in marine biomass and blue carbon capture

By Boston University A new study offers first-time insights into three emerging climate innovations to safeguard or increase the carbon naturally captured by ocean and…
SourceSourceJune 6, 2024 Full article
25 years of the deep-sea observatory AWI-HAUSGARTENNewsScience

25 years of the deep-sea observatory AWI-HAUSGARTEN

By Alfred-Wegener-Institut For the past 25 years, the Alfred Wegener Institute has operated a long-term observatory in the Arctic deep sea: the HAUSGARTEN. Located between…
SourceSourceJune 6, 2024 Full article
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Electrified charcoal ‘sponge’ can soak up CO2 directly from the airScience

Electrified charcoal ‘sponge’ can soak up CO2 directly from the air

By University of Cambridge Researchers have developed a low-cost, energy-efficient method for making materials that can capture carbon dioxide directly from the air. Researchers from…
SourceSourceJune 6, 2024 Full article
Rapid urbanization in Africa transforms local food systems and threatens biodiversityScience

Rapid urbanization in Africa transforms local food systems and threatens biodiversity

By Bettina Greenwell, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA ) Urbanization in Africa is accelerating quickly, showing no signs of slowing down. An international…
SourceSourceMay 31, 2024 Full article
People are altering decomposition rates in waterwaysScience

People are altering decomposition rates in waterways

By Leigh Hataway, University of Georgia Faster decomposition could exacerbate greenhouse gas emissions, threaten biodiversity Humans may be accelerating the rate at which organic matter…
SourceSourceMay 31, 2024 Full article
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First use of weather forecasts to show human impact on extreme weather is ‘transformational’, Oxford scientists sayClimateScience

First use of weather forecasts to show human impact on extreme weather is ‘transformational’, Oxford scientists say

By University of Oxford National forecasting centres like the Met Office could apply the same tools used for weather forecasting to quantify how human behaviour…
SourceSourceMay 30, 2024 Full article