Global oceans were warmer last month than any other May in records stretching back to the 19th century, the European Union's climate monitoring unit reported Wednesday.
Environment
Jun 7, 2023
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Climate change-driven shifts in the circulation of waters to the deepest reaches of the ocean around Antarctica, which could reverberate across the planet and intensify global warming, are happening decades "ahead of schedule", ...
Environment
May 28, 2023
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Arctic ground squirrels are unique among mammals. Their ability to keep from freezing even when body temperatures dip below that mark on the thermometer enables them to survive extreme winter climates. New research published ...
Plants & Animals
May 25, 2023
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Earth's declining ice is without a doubt one of the clearest signs of climate change. A new high-resolution sea-ice concentration data record has just been released as part of ESA's Climate Change Initiative—providing new ...
Earth Sciences
May 25, 2023
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The biomedical optics research team in Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), has developed a device for on-site immediate detection of ...
Biochemistry
Apr 18, 2023
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You might think it'd be easy to track an animal as large as a blue whale. But don't let their size fool you—they're incredibly hard to study using conventional methods.
Plants & Animals
Apr 14, 2023
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The use of coal power is not decreasing fast enough. The Paris Agreement's target of a maximum of 2 degrees of warming appear to be missed, and the world is moving towards a temperature increase of 2.5–3 degrees. At the ...
Environment
Apr 6, 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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In a study published in the journal Science China Earth Sciences, researchers led by Dr. Mengyuan Wang (School of Marine Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University) proposed a non-linear regression of UK'37–SST for samples collected ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 27, 2023
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Marine heat waves are damaging reef ecosystems around Australia, but while the tropical north has received the lion's share of the attention to date, we equally need to worry about the temperate south.
Ecology
Mar 23, 2023
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