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Hurricane Helene's reach was shocking, another example of how climate change 'is here and now,' scientists say
Many people were stunned to see the intense flooding and devastation caused by Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina communities, located inland and tucked thousands of feet above sea level in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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Milton 'erratically' approaches Florida, likely to become major hurricane
Hurricane Milton was moving "erratically" through the Gulf of Mexico toward Florida on Monday, the US National Hurricane Center said, warning it will likely soon become a major hurricane.
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During visit to South LA, EPA head vows to address environmental injustices in Watts
The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has pledged to work alongside Watts residents to address a host of environmental issues in the South Los Angeles community.
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Stalking a pollutant: Researchers comb river for secrets of Great Lakes microplastics
Ali Shakoor took a break from his morning field work to lay two small bluegill in his palm, displaying the catch his colleagues had netted from a riffling nook of the Huron River.
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Drowned by hurricane, remote N.Carolina towns now struggle for water
Nicole Crane, exhausted, tearful and unwashed after a week of searching for a neighbor swept away by the raging waters of Hurricane Helene, dreams of taking a shower.
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Flash flooding kills three in northern Thailand
Flash flooding in popular Thai tourist hotspot Chiang Mai has killed three people, a health official said Sunday, as visitors evacuated hotels through knee-high muddy water and shops closed in the city center.
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Study shows EV owners have bigger carbon footprint than average because they are wealthier
A pair of psychologists and an economist at the University of Turku, in Finland, have found that because the average electric vehicle (EV) owner is wealthier than the average person, they still have a bigger than average ...
A 'forgotten' valley in storm-hit North Carolina, desperate for help
The only road to Pensacola, in the remote mountains of western North Carolina, is now a muddy path through deep, twisting gorges. Its main bridges were swept away last week in floods fueled by devastating Hurricane Helene—and ...
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Oct 6, 2024
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Limestone and iron reveal puzzling extreme rain in Western Australia 100,000 years ago
Almost one-sixth of Earth's land surface is covered in otherworldly landscapes with a name that may also be unfamiliar: karst. These landscapes are like natural sculpture parks, with dramatic terrain dotted with caves and ...
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Oct 5, 2024
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Supreme Court lets stand rules to curb mercury, methane emissions
The US Supreme Court declined on Friday to block environmental regulations aimed at reducing harmful emissions of mercury from power plants and methane from oil and gas facilities.
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Oct 5, 2024
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Nepalis fear more floods as climate change melts glaciers
Mingma Rita Sherpa was not home when the muddy torrent roared into his village in Nepal without warning, but when he returned, he did not recognize his once beautiful settlement.
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Oct 5, 2024
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Capturing finer-scale topographic differences improves Earth system model capability to reproduce observations
Earth system models (ESMs), used in climate simulations and projections, typically use grids of 50–200 km resolution. These are considered relatively coarse with limited ability to resolve land surface variability.
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Oct 4, 2024
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Researchers investigate changes in atmospheric CO₂ levels between glacial and interglacial climates
Paleoclimate scientists are trying to understand the causes of the ~90 parts per million (ppmv) atmospheric CO2 swings between glacial and interglacial climates. Even though these cycles between cold and warm periods seem ...
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Oct 4, 2024
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Better monitoring of mining remediation: Selenium isotopes are good gauge of clean-up efforts
A new testing technique developed using synchrotron light could significantly improve how we monitor the effectiveness of remediation practices for removing selenium contamination from mining activities.
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Oct 4, 2024
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Maasai Mara's Indigenous forest is disappearing, with drastic consequences
Next to the world-famous Maasai Mara national reserve, an indigenous forest called Nyekweri serves as a sanctuary for elephants, rare birds such as the bright green Schalow's turaco, a small nocturnal mammal called the tree ...
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Oct 4, 2024
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'Carbon contracts for difference' are not a silver bullet for climate action, says researcher
With the end of the supply-and-confidence agreement and plummeting support for the Liberals, Canada's climate policy mix is becoming increasingly unstable with the future of everything from investment tax credits to carbon ...
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Oct 4, 2024
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Extensive afforestation and reforestation can brake global warming
The Paris Agreement calls on us to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. To reach this goal, we need to reduce CO₂ emissions and remove existing CO₂ from the atmosphere.
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Oct 4, 2024
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Southeast US reels as storm Helene death toll passes 210
More than 210 people are now confirmed dead after Hurricane Helene carved a path of destruction through several US states, officials said Thursday, making it the second deadliest storm to hit the US mainland in more than ...
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Oct 4, 2024
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Climate lessons from the fall of a Pacific chiefdom
A study reveals that new dates for an ancient site in the Pacific correlate with sea level rise and El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) variability.
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Oct 4, 2024
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Some microbes used poison gas in battle for iron in the Earth's early oceans, geomicrobiologists find
Early in the Earth's development, the atmosphere contained no oxygen. Yet the iron dissolved in the oceans was oxidized in gigantic quantities and deposited as rock. It can be seen today, for example, as banded iron ore in ...
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Oct 4, 2024
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