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January smashes heat record, surprising scientists
Last month was the hottest January on record, blitzing the previous high and stunning climate scientists who expected cooler La Niña conditions to finally start quelling a long-running heat streak.
Environment
Feb 8, 2025
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Initiative calls for global collaboration to reconstruct climate of past 100 million years
TIMES is the title of the international team's project, which is an acronym for "Time Integrated Matrix for Earth Sciences." The idea behind it is to launch a global program with the aim of synchronizing age models for particularly ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 7, 2025
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Trump slams paper straws, vows 'back to plastic'
President Donald Trump on Friday raged against eco-friendly paper straws promoted by his predecessor Joe Biden, and pledged that the United States would return to plastic ones.
Environment
Feb 7, 2025
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New measure identifies Australia's healthiest places to live
A new measure of what's needed to maintain health has identified Australia's healthiest areas to live based on a range of environmental and socioeconomic factors.
Environment
Feb 7, 2025
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Creating international testing standards for large outdoor fires
Large-scale fire events are on the rise, from the flames that raged for days across LA, to the widespread devastation seen in Greece in 2023 and 2024. The blurred line between urban and wildland areas means these events will ...
Environment
Feb 7, 2025
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Enhanced weathering could transform US agriculture for atmospheric CO₂ removal
A new study reveals that implementing enhanced weathering (EW), the practice of adding crushed basalt to soils, with U.S. agriculture could remove between 160 and 300 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 7, 2025
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Antarctic snow harbors microplastics: New technique uncovers hidden pollution
Scientists have discovered microplastics in the snow near some of Antarctica's deep field camps, revealing how far-reaching plastic pollution has become. While not new, it's the first time these tiny pieces of plastic have ...
Environment
Feb 7, 2025
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How climate extremes fuel droughts and heavy rains
Millions of people are already experiencing the impacts of climate change in everyday life. A few tenths of a degree warmer and the life we know becomes increasingly at risk due to climate extremes such as heat waves, droughts, ...
Environment
Feb 7, 2025
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A stream turns blood red in Argentina, residents blame pollution
A stream on the outskirts of Buenos Aires turned blood red on Thursday, causing anxiety among residents who blamed it on pollution.
Environment
Feb 7, 2025
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Decoupling of water storage and rainfall in drylands highlights human impact
Drylands, characterized by an aridity index (AI) below 0.65, cover about 45% of the Earth's land and support more than 3 billion people. Severe water scarcity in these areas poses significant risks to human well-being and ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 7, 2025
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An Arctic meltdown is accelerating global warming: How will we adapt?
In 2016, nearly 200 world leaders pledged to do everything possible to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. Since then, policymakers across the globe have designed countless laws around the assumption that warming ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 7, 2025
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Spatial prediction problems: Validation technique could help scientists make more accurate forecasts
Should you grab your umbrella before you walk out the door? Checking the weather forecast beforehand will only be helpful if that forecast is accurate.
Environment
Feb 7, 2025
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Heavy metal toxicity found in Chinese port poses risk to seafood safety
Heavy metals naturally occur in the Earth's crust, but human activities can increase their concentration in the environment, including domestic sewage and waste disposal, fumes from vehicle exhausts, fertilizer runoff, mining ...
COP30 president urges most 'ambitious' emissions targets possible
Countries must aim as high as possible when setting new goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Andre Correa do Lago, the president of the COP30 climate conference to be hosted by Brazil in November, told AFP in an interview.
Environment
Feb 7, 2025
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Dutch space instrument SPEXone produces world map of aerosols
On February 8, 2024, NASA launched its PACE climate satellite with the Dutch aerosol instrument SPEXone onboard. A full year of observations now yields a world map of aerosols.
Earth Sciences
Feb 7, 2025
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Global study finds dramatic disparities in progress toward Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) constitute the leading global framework for achieving human progress, economic prosperity, and planetary health. This framework emphasizes issues such as public health, education for ...
Environment
Feb 6, 2025
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Earth saw record-high greening in 2020: What's at the root?
As pandemic lockdowns forced humans into isolation, Earth's vegetation was thriving. The year 2020 was the greenest in modern satellite records from 2001 to 2020, according to a recent study published in Remote Sensing of ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 6, 2025
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Ice streams move due to tiny ice quakes: Dynamics of Greenland's ice decrypted
The great ice streams of the Antarctic and Greenland are like frozen rivers, carrying ice from the massive inland ice sheets to the sea—and a change in their dynamics will contribute significantly to sea-level rise.
Earth Sciences
Feb 6, 2025
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Loving the world could address the climate crisis and help us make sense of changes to come
This January, the world watched as Los Angeles burned. "I've never seen anything like this," one police chief told reporters, a sentiment echoed by front-line firefighters.
Environment
Feb 6, 2025
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What's the difference between climate and weather models? It all comes down to chaos
Weather forecasts help you decide whether to go for a picnic, hang out your washing or ride your bike to work. They also provide warnings for extreme events, and predictions to optimize our power grid.
Environment
Feb 6, 2025
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