It was pitched as the "most significant" shift in Australia's armed forces in decades. And among the headline announcements, climate change was recognized as an issue of national security.
Environment
Apr 25, 2023
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University of Alberta researchers have developed a new catalyst that could revolutionize how we generate power and purify water. When placed in any type of water and provided with a small amount of power, the catalyst produces ...
Materials Science
Apr 24, 2023
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By invading new environments, some alien species have caused disastrous consequences for local species and ecosystems, as well as for human activities—damage to infrastructure, crops, forest plantations, fishing yields, ...
Ecology
Apr 18, 2023
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Three-dimensional simulations shed light on how energy dissipates within non-Newtonian fluids (fluids in which viscosity depend on the shear rate.) The result is valuable in the context of disaster forecasting and the management ...
Soft Matter
Apr 13, 2023
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On February 6, 2023, two powerful earthquakes successively occurred in Turkey, resulting in significant damage and loss of life across southeast Turkey and northwest Syria. As a fundamental parameter, their magnitudes are ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 11, 2023
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Temperatures are rising in Japan and summer is coming fast.
Environment
Apr 11, 2023
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Research using innovative techniques has revealed the 1987 Edgecumbe earthquake caused more land damage than initially thought, after comparing aerial photos of the landscape before and after the event.
Earth Sciences
Apr 10, 2023
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Ionizing radiation from nuclear disasters are known to be harmful to the natural environment. The Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant meltdown that occurred in 2011 is a prominent example of such a disaster in recent memory. ...
Ecology
Apr 7, 2023
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Scientists have long predicted that global climate change could fuel an increase in the frequency and severity of natural disasters including hurricanes, heatwaves and cold snaps, droughts and floods and wildfires. In a paper ...
Environment
Apr 6, 2023
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Natural disasters can devastate a region, abruptly killing the species that form an ecosystem's structure. But how this transpires can influence recovery. While fires scorch the landscape to the ground, a heatwave leaves ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 5, 2023
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