California bans invasive golden mussels in battle to keep species out of waters
It is now illegal to possess or transport golden mussels in California.
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Colorado's landfills leak climate-warming methane into the air: What's the state going to do about it?
Landfills in Colorado release millions of metric tons of greenhouse gases each year as organic waste including food, paper and yard trimmings decomposes into the soil, contributing to global warming and harming human health.
Environment
Dec 23, 2024
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Longer records bring climate change's impact on atmospheric circulation to light
The way climate change affects thermodynamic signals, such as atmospheric temperatures, is relatively well understood. Its effects on atmospheric circulation, however, are more complex because the atmosphere is noisy and ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 23, 2024
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Decades of observations uncover secrets of Antarctic fast ice
Sea ice that has persisted for at least 15 days and is held fast to the shoreline is called "fast ice." Around Antarctica, fast ice protects continental ice from ocean waves, creates unique ecological habitats for everything ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 23, 2024
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Massive Antarctic icebergs may calve at random, analysis suggests
Antarctica is losing ice quickly, in part because of climate change. Massive calving events, such as the one that formed the Delaware-sized (5,800 square kilometers, or 2,239 square miles) A-68 iceberg in 2017, can destabilize ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 23, 2024
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New study documents evolution of fast-growing, fish-eating herring in Baltic Sea
Atlantic and Baltic herring are typical plankton-eating fish of central importance for the northern Atlantic Ocean and Baltic Sea ecosystems. A new study published in Nature Communications led by scientists from Uppsala University ...
Evolution
Dec 23, 2024
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