The Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland began erupting again on Wednesday after eight months of slumber—so far without any adverse impacts on people or air traffic.
Earth Sciences
Aug 8, 2022
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Alfred Hitchcock would have appreciated this twist: The birds in central California are getting bigger.
Ecology
Nov 11, 2011
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Global warming is often cited as having a negative impact on snow and ice melt in cold regions, yet new research published in The Cryosphere has suggested that extreme snowfall events may be a feature of some locations at ...
On August 21, 2013 at 1:24 am EDT, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection, or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of particles into space and reach Earth one to three days later. These ...
Space Exploration
Aug 21, 2013
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UNSW scientists have released a world-first framework for guiding the building and management of coastal infrastructure at a global scale. It is hoped that the framework—published today in journal BioScience—will influence ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 5, 2019
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Tropical plants closer to the equator are most at risk from climate change because it is expected to become too hot for many species to germinate in the next 50 years, UNSW researchers have found.
Plants & Animals
Jul 2, 2020
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For the first time, researchers have developed a model to estimate how much energy the original colonizers of New Zealand expended to maintain their body temperatures on the cold, harrowing ocean journey from Southeast Asia.
Other
Jul 13, 2023
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The shortened daylight of a Maine winter may make for long, dark nights – but it has shone a light on a novel experimental approach to fighting inflammatory breast cancer (IBC), an especially deadly form of breast cancer.
Bio & Medicine
Feb 1, 2013
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As the Arctic has warmed and beaver populations have rebounded, the animal architects known for greatly modifying their natural environments have moved to higher and higher latitudes. Now, researchers show that beaver-instigated ...
Ecology
Aug 23, 2023
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Climate researchers have shown that big volcanic eruptions over the past 450 years have temporarily cooled weather in the tropics—but suggest that such effects may have been masked in the 20th century by rising global temperatures. ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 5, 2009
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