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NASA scientists are clocking wildflower blooms to understand our ever-changing planet
NASA research is revealing there's more to flowers than meets the human eye. A recent analysis of wildflowers in California shows how aircraft- and space-based instruments can use color to track seasonal flower cycles. The ...
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Carbon cycle feedbacks may amplify global heating risk, study warns
Global heating over this millennium could exceed previous estimates due to carbon cycle feedback loops. This is the conclusion of a new study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). The analysis shows ...
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Updated physical model helps reconstruct sudden, dramatic sea level rise after last ice age
Around 14,500 years ago, toward the end of the last ice age, melting continental ice sheets drove a sudden and cataclysmic sea level rise of up to 65 feet in just 500 years or less. Despite the scale of the event, known as ...
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Modeling the past and future of Antarctica's Aurora Subglacial Basin water flow
A pair of researchers at the University of Waterloo in Canada, working with a colleague from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the U.S., have created a model to visualize how water flows in Antarctica's Aurora Subglacial ...
Climate warming and heat waves are accelerating global lake deoxygenation, study finds
Freshwater ecosystems require adequate oxygen levels to sustain aerobic life and maintain healthy biological communities. However, both long-term climate warming and the increasing frequency and intensity of short-term heat ...
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Team discovers 'dark oxygen' on the seafloor
Children are always asking "Why?" As they experience things for the first time, it's natural to want to find out more. But as children grow into adults, they often dismiss something new that challenges their experience and ...
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Mar 23, 2025
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Earth's drylands expand, affecting billions as climate warms
As Earth continues to warm, more and more of the planet is becoming dry. A 2024 UN report found that in the last three decades, over three-fourths of all the world's land became drier than it had been in the previous 30 years.
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Mar 21, 2025
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Core samples from Greenland's seabed provide first historical overview of plastic pollution
By coring the seabed at 850 m water depth in Disko Bay off Greenland's west coast, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have obtained the first historical record of plastic pollution in Greenland. The new data suggest ...
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Mar 21, 2025
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Shrinking Andean glaciers threaten water supply of 90 million people, scientists warn
Scientists from the University of Sheffield will warn policymakers that the shrinking glaciers of the Andes threaten the water supply of 90 million people on the South American continent at the first-ever World Day for Glaciers ...
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Mar 21, 2025
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Not just trees: Most of the carbon sequestered on land is stored in soil and water, study finds
Recent studies have shown that carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystems are increasing, mitigating around 30% of the CO2 emissions linked to human activities.
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Mar 20, 2025
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Scientists in Antarctica: Why they're there and what they've found
A media storm blew up in mid-March 2025 when a researcher at South Africa's isolated Sanae IV base in Antarctica accused one of its nine team members of becoming violent.
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Mar 20, 2025
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Hydroacoustic imaging shows human traces on the seabed may be visible for decades
Human use of the marine environment of the Baltic Sea is visible on the seabed and can significantly impact the habitat of many marine species. In a new study, researchers from Kiel University have used high-resolution hydroacoustic ...
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Mar 20, 2025
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Earth's lungs are choking on plastic and smoke—scientists hope to unblock them
A graph I saw in high school appeared to show the Earth breathing. It was a graph that plotted carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over the course of the 20th century and into the 21st. CO2 had risen steadily, and then more ...
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Mar 20, 2025
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NASA uses advanced radar to track groundwater in California
Where California's towering Sierra Nevada surrenders to the sprawling San Joaquin Valley, a high-stakes detective story is unfolding. The culprit isn't a person but a process: the mysterious journey of snowmelt as it travels ...
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Mar 20, 2025
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Fully AI-driven weather prediction system delivers accurate forecasts faster with less computing power
A new AI weather prediction system, Aardvark Weather, can deliver accurate forecasts tens of times faster and using thousands of times less computing power than current AI and physics-based forecasting systems, according ...
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Mar 20, 2025
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Peatlands' carbon capture potential increases with rising temperatures
According to a predictive model developed by a CNRS researcher and his European colleagues, the microalgae present in peat bogs could offset up to 14% of future CO2 emissions, thanks to their photosynthetic activity. This ...
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Mar 20, 2025
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Scientists to explore why Everest glacier is so warm
A team of researchers is making final preparations for a trip to Mount Everest in Nepal next month to explore why the ice of one of the mountain's most iconic glaciers is so close to the melting point.
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Mar 20, 2025
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First earthquakes detected in Pacific Ocean using ultra-stable optical interferometry on undersea cables
NPL and MSL in New Zealand successfully detected a multitude of earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean using a pioneering detection technique.
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Mar 20, 2025
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Revoking EPA's endangerment finding won't be simple and could have unintended consequences
Most of the United States' major climate regulations are underpinned by one important document: It's called the endangerment finding, and it concludes that greenhouse gas emissions are a threat to human health and welfare.
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Mar 20, 2025
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Q&A: Earth scientist discusses the shrinking waters of the Colorado River
Key agreements in the "Law of the River," which encompasses more than 100 years of regulations, laws, court decisions and more focused on managing the Colorado River, are set to expire next year. First established in 1922 ...
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Mar 20, 2025
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