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Chileans receive mistaken tsunami warning following Antarctic quake
A 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck Saturday off the coast of Antarctica triggered a tsunami warning but panic ensued when a message to abandon coastal areas was sent to a large number of Chileans, some of whom experienced ...
Environment
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Wet and wild: There's lots of water in the world's most explosive volcano
There isn't much in Kamchatka, a remote peninsula in northeastern Russia just across the Bering Sea from Alaska, besides an impressive population of brown bears and the most explosive volcano in the world.
Earth Sciences
Jan 23, 2021
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Climate and carbon cycle trends of the past 50 million years reconciled
Predictions of future climate change require a clear and nuanced understanding of Earth's past climate. In a study published today in Science Advances, University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa oceanographers fully reconciled ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 22, 2021
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Role of dams in reducing global flood exposure under climate change
A new collaborative study led by researchers at the National Institute for Environmental Studies, the University of Tokyo, and Michigan State University exposes the role of dams for mitigating flood risk under climate change.
Environment
Jan 22, 2021
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Aging dams pose growing threat: UN
By 2050, most people on Earth will live downstream of tens of thousands of large dams built in the 20th century, many of them already operating at or beyond their design life, according to a UN University analysis.
Environment
Jan 22, 2021
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Tiny particles that seed clouds can form from trace gases over open sea
New results from an atmospheric study over the Eastern North Atlantic reveal that tiny aerosol particles that seed the formation of clouds can form out of next to nothingness over the open ocean. This "new particle formation" ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 22, 2021
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Irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa are consistently falling short of their promises
Irrigation schemes in sub-Saharan Africa don't measure up to their plans according to new research into the projects by scientists. Many of the schemes were found to be consistently delivering a much smaller area of irrigation ...
Environment
Jan 22, 2021
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Level-crossing removals: A case study in why major projects must also be investments in health
The Victorian government has committed to removing 75 road/rail level crossings across Melbourne by 2025. That's the fastest rate of removal in the city's history. The scale of the investment—at least A$14.8 billion—and ...
Environment
Jan 22, 2021
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Geoscientists reconstruct 6.5 million years of sea level stands
The pressing concern posed by rising sea levels has created a critical need for scientists to precisely predict how quickly the oceans will rise in coming centuries. To gain insight into future ice sheet stability and sea-level ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 22, 2021
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A new way to forecast beach water quality
Less than two days of water quality sampling at local beaches may be all that's needed to reduce illnesses among millions of beachgoers every year due to contaminated water, according to new Stanford research. The study, ...
Environment
Jan 22, 2021
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World's ageing big dams pose 'emerging risk': UN
By 2050, more than half the global population will live downstream from tens of thousands of large dams near or past their intended lifespan, according to a UN report released Friday.
Environment
Jan 22, 2021
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Study examines how clean air act affects municipal bond market
Research has studied the effects of climate risk on financial markets, but few studies have addressed the effect of environmental policy on those markets. A new study examined whether federal policy aimed at mitigating local ...
Environment
Jan 22, 2021
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Why is Wave Rock shaped like a wave?
It's all about erosion—but not as we know it.
Earth Sciences
Jan 22, 2021
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Combined river flows could send up to 3 billion microplastics a day into the Bay of Bengal
The Ganges River—with the combined flows of the Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers—could be responsible for up to 3 billion microplastic particles entering the Bay of Bengal every day, according to new research.
Environment
Jan 22, 2021
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Rich nations 'hugely exaggerate' climate finance: study
Rich countries have over-reported finance to help countries adapt to the impacts of climate change by $20 billion over the last decade, leaving at-risk communities drastically underfunded, a new analysis showed Thursday.
Environment
Jan 21, 2021
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Lake heatwaves may become hotter and longer, new study suggests
Lake heatwaves—periods of extreme warm surface water temperature in lakes—may become hotter and longer by the end of the 21st century, according to a study published in Nature, increasing the link between climate change ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 21, 2021
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Antarctica: The ocean cools at the surface but warms up at depth
Scientists from the CNRS, CNES, IRD, Sorbonne Université, l'Université Toulouse III—Paul Sabatier and their Australian colleagues, with the support of the IPEV, have provided a comprehensive analysis on the evolution ...
Environment
Jan 21, 2021
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The idea of an environmental tax is finally gaining strength
An extra 290,000 pounds a year for lighting and cleaning because smog darkens and pollutes everything: with this cost estimate for the industrial city of Manchester, the English economist Arthur Cecil Pigou once founded the ...
Environment
Jan 21, 2021
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Climate change puts hundreds of coastal airports at risk of flooding
Even a modest sea level rise, triggered by increasing global temperatures, would place 100 airports below mean sea level by 2100, a new study has found.
Earth Sciences
Jan 21, 2021
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Engineers have built machines to scrub carbon dioxide from the air. Will it halt climate change?
On Wednesday this week, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was measured at at 415 parts per million (ppm). The level is the highest in human history, and is growing each year.
Environment
Jan 21, 2021
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