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Canada's wildfire season begins
Wildfire season has arrived in full force in Canada, prompting evacuation orders and alerts in several towns in British Columbia and Alberta due to the danger of uncontrolled blazes.
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Linking leaf elemental traits to biomass across forest biomes in the Himalayas
The growth, development, and functioning of plants in various environments depend on multiple elements. However, our understanding of how the element concentrations in leaves that are associated with plant functioning and ...
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Research finds human activity over natural inputs determines the bacterial community in an ice core
The Tibetan Plateau (TP) has the third-largest number of glaciers after the Antarctic and Greenland. Bacteria, deposited on glacier surfaces through dry and wet deposition, undergo in-situ growth and are subsequently preserved ...
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Microplastics may slow the rate at which carbon is pulled from the sea surface to the depths
It turns out plastics in the ocean do more than suffocate turtles, fish and other marine life.
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Airborne technology brings new hope to map shallow aquifers in Earth's most arid deserts
Water shortages are expanding across the Earth. This is particularly acute in desert areas of the Middle East that are subject to both drought and extreme conditions such as flooding. As a result of these uncertainties, there ...
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May 16, 2024
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Ocean warming triggers Indo-Pacific heat waves: Study
An intense heat wave gripping South and South-East Asia since late March comes as no surprise to leading meteorologists who have been warning of steadily rising temperatures in the Indian Ocean.
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May 16, 2024
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International study finds lightning storms are causing sea ice to melt faster at the North Pole
An international study with the participation of researchers from Tel Aviv University has found that alongside the general warming of the globe, lightning storms have been directly hastening the ongoing process of sea ice ...
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May 16, 2024
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Transformation and mechanisms of climate wet/dry change on the northern Tibetan Plateau under global warming
Historical patterns of climate change can provide ways to predict future climate change. During geological history, the earth has experienced many warm periods of different time scales, such as the mid-Holocene warm period, ...
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May 16, 2024
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Enhancing land surface models to visualize vegetation gradients in hilly terrain
Land surface models are an indispensable tool for environmental scientists to map the natural features of our world, particularly when they monitor the effects of climate change or assess conservation efforts.
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May 16, 2024
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Researchers identify characteristics of meltwater runoff in three sub-basins of the Urumqi River Basin
Glacier runoff plays an important role in both contributing to and regulating river runoff. The contributions and regulating effects of various hydrological components can only be revealed through comparative studies on catchments ...
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May 16, 2024
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Floating robots reveal just how much airborne dust fertilizes the Southern Ocean—a key climate 'shock absorber'
The Southern Ocean, a region critical to Earth's climate, hosts vast blooms of microscopic ocean plants known as phytoplankton. They form the very basis of the Antarctic food web.
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May 16, 2024
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Monitoring strategies of suspended matter after natural and deep-sea mining disturbances
"Dust clouds" at the bottom of the deep sea, that will be created by deep-sea mining activities, descend at a short distance for the most part. That is shown by Ph.D. research of NIOZ marine geologist Sabine Haalboom, on ...
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May 15, 2024
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Study demonstrates self-similar fractal stress is more suitable for destructive scenario earthquake simulation
Scenario earthquakes are useful in assessing earthquake hazards along active faults. However, determining the sources of destructive scenario earthquakes, particularly when dealing with heterogeneous stresses, can be challenging.
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May 15, 2024
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Global geodetic parameters determination: Using satellite laser ranging observations to GNSS satellites
Satellite laser ranging (SLR) is one of the space geodetic techniques that uses lasers to measure the distance between ground stations and satellites with retroreflectors. This precise measurement provides critical data for ...
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May 15, 2024
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Summers warm up faster than winters, fossil shells from Antwerp show
In a warmer climate, summers warm much faster than winters. That is the conclusion of research into fossil shells by Earth scientist Niels de Winter. With this knowledge, we can better map the consequences of current global ...
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May 15, 2024
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The case for sharing carbon storage risk
Even the most optimistic projections for the rapid build-out of solar, wind, and other low-carbon resources acknowledge that coal, natural gas, and other fossil fuels will dominate the world's energy mix for decades to come. ...
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May 15, 2024
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Researchers identify nutrient enrichment driven by canopy rainfall redistribution
Precipitation deeply couples with nutrient cycling through its interactions with atmospheric deposition and canopy interception, which alters its own chemical properties. Throughfall and stemflow carry numerous elements into ...
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May 14, 2024
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How 'glowing' plants could help scientists predict flash drought
An unusual boost in plant productivity can foreshadow severe soil water loss, and NASA satellites are following the clues.
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May 14, 2024
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New GPS-based method can measure daily ice loss in Greenland
When the ice sheet in Greenland melts, as it has done increasingly in recent years, the bedrock beneath moves slightly.
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May 14, 2024
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2023 was the hottest summer in 2,000 years, study finds
Researchers have found that 2023 was the hottest summer in the Northern Hemisphere in the past 2,000 years, almost 4°C warmer than the coldest summer during the same period.
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May 14, 2024
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