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Southern Ocean warming could lead to wetter Pacific coasts for centuries to come
People along the densely populated Pacific coasts are exposed to strongly fluctuating rainfall patterns: In East Asia, heavy rain falls in summer, and flooding is already one of the climate risks in this region today. The ...
Earth Sciences
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Australians want nature protected—these three environmental problems should be top of the next government's to-do list
Australia is a place of great natural beauty, home to many species found nowhere else on Earth. But it's also particularly vulnerable to introduced animals, diseases, and weeds. Habitat destruction, pollution, and climate ...
Environment
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Study finds Rocky Mountain snow contamination from mines
Mountain snowpacks accumulate snow throughout the winter, building up stores of water that will supply communities across the American West throughout the long dry season.
Earth Sciences
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Lingering El Niño events are becoming more common: Study uncovers 7,000-year trend
An international team of geoscientists, marine geologists, climatologists, and environmental specialists has found that lingering El Niño events have increased in frequency over the past 7,000 years. In their study published ...
Simulating the origin and evolution of the North Atlantic Oscillation shows how it helped shape Earth
A simulation on the origin and evolution of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) has been conducted by a PKU research team led by Nie Ji, Associate Professor of the School of Physics; and Hu Yongyun, Dean of the Institute ...
Earth Sciences
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North America is dripping from below, geoscientists discover
Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in Earth's mantle may be the reason why.
Earth Sciences
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Enhanced westerly winds lead to increased ocean heat transport to the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, study finds
A research group led by Associate Professor Kohei Mizobata, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, including researchers from the National Institute of Polar Research, the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science ...
Earth Sciences
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Tree rings from Canada's Gaspésie mountains reveal effects of global warming dating back almost a century
A study of tree rings in the Gaspesie's Sainte-Anne River area reveals that snowpacks have been declining noticeably in the region's mountains for nearly nine decades. The researchers say the phenomenon is directly linked ...
Earth Sciences
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Microplastics pollution from glitter can disrupt marine biomineralization
New research reveals that PET-based glitter microplastics can actively influence biomineralization processes in marine environments, raising fresh concerns about the long-term environmental impact of microplastic pollution ...
Environment
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The rivers that science says shouldn't exist
Rivers join downstream, flow downhill, and eventually meet an ocean or terminal lake: These are fundamental rules of how waterways and basins are supposed to work. But rules are made to be broken. In the journal Water Resources ...
Earth Sciences
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South Africans flush toilets with drinkable water. Study in Cape Town looked at using seawater instead
As the planet gets hotter and freshwater sources dry up, cities and towns will not be able to continue the global norm of using millions of liters of clean, drinkable water to flush toilets. South Africa's Water Research ...
Environment
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Surprising number of environmental pollutants found in hedgehogs
Lead, pesticides, brominated flame retardants, plastic additives, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and heavy metals. This is what researchers at Lund University in Sweden found in a new study when they collected dead hedgehogs ...
Environment
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A classification of drugs based on their environmental impact
Scientists at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and University center Unisanté classified 35 commonly used drugs in Switzerland based on their impact on the aquatic biodiversity. The aim of this research is to provide medical ...
Environment
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Air pollution and traffic noise increase the risk of stroke through combination effect
Research from the Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM), Karolinska Institutet shows that air pollution and traffic noise together may pose a greater risk for stroke than either factor alone. The researchers found that ...
Environment
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Global warming of more than 3°C this century may wipe 40% off the world's economy, new analysis reveals
The damage climate change will inflict on the world's economy is likely to have been massively underestimated, according to new research by my colleagues and me, which accounts for the full global reach of extreme weather ...
Environment
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Torrential rains created devastating inland seas in outback Queensland. Soon, they will fill Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre
The small Queensland town of Eromanga bills itself as Australia's town furthest from the sea. But this week, an ocean of freshwater arrived.
Environment
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Urban cemeteries are at capacity. Here's how they can be more sustainable
Approximately 170,000 people die every day around the world—that's around 62 million deaths in 2024 alone. The cumulative effect of this has led to what has been termed a "burial crisis," with most urban areas where burial ...
Environment
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Inner London residents told me their food waste problems—composting definitely isn't the answer
"It's always frustrated me that we can't compost here—even though I get why. Tower blocks just aren't built for it," said Alexandra, a 42-year-old Tower Hamlets resident, living on the ninth floor. She gestures toward the ...
Environment
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Scientists develop ultraprecise, efficient and flexible technique for counting and analyzing nanoplastics
While the threat that microplastics pose to human and ecological health has been richly documented and is well known, nanoplastics, which are smaller than one micrometer (1/50th the thickness of an average human hair), are ...
Environment
Apr 1, 2025
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New research reveals dramatically higher loss of GDP under 4°C warming
New projections by the UNSW Institute for Climate Risk & Response (ICRR) reveal a 4°C rise in global temperatures would cut world GDP by around 40% by 2100—a stark increase from previous estimates of around 11%.
Earth Sciences
Apr 1, 2025
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