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Europe's Great Famine of 1315–1317 is considered one of the worst population collapses in the continent's history. Historical records tell of unrelenting rain accompanied by mass crop failure, skyrocketing food prices, ...
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High-resolution radar and night vision cameras may help scientists protect bats from untimely deaths at wind farms, according to new research.
Plants & Animals
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Texas homes that took the biggest hit in value after 2008's Hurricane Ike were, surprisingly, not those within historic flood zones, new research finds. Instead, they were homes just outside these zones, where damage affected ...
Environment
Dec 11, 2019
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Roads built through acidic wetlands may make greenhouse gas emissions from the wetlands spike by damming natural water flow, according to a new study.
Earth Sciences
Dec 09, 2019
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The loss of the ice shelf supporting one of Antarctica's most vulnerable glaciers could hasten its collapse, a new study finds.
Earth Sciences
Dec 05, 2019
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New research explains how bubbles erupt in frigid hydrocarbon lakes on Saturn's largest moon Titan, potentially creating fizz intense enough to form geologic features on the moon.
Space Exploration
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Want to know the next month's weather for London or Belfast? You might be better off taking a look at Malaysia.
Earth Sciences
Nov 26, 2019
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The size of a bulge at the top of a thunderstorm's anvil-shaped cloud may allow researchers to forecast the strength of tornadoes that spawn from such storms, according to a new study in AGU's journal Geophysical Research ...
Earth Sciences
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The oldest and thickest Arctic sea ice is disappearing twice as fast as ice in the rest of the Arctic Ocean, according to new research.
Earth Sciences
Nov 12, 2019
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The spring season is lengthening in some regions of the U.S. and compressing in others, potentially disrupting species' migration patterns and development, a new study finds.
Environment
Nov 12, 2019
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