Seaweed 'could survive nuclear war, avert famine,' says new study
Imagine a catastrophic event that blocked out the sun, such as the eruption of a large volcano, or even a nuclear war.
Imagine a catastrophic event that blocked out the sun, such as the eruption of a large volcano, or even a nuclear war.
Ecology
Jan 26, 2024
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Human-induced global warming, and not El Niño, was the primary driver of last year's severe drought in the Amazon that sent rivers to record lows, required deliveries of food and drinking water to hundreds of river communities ...
Environment
Jan 24, 2024
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Over the last century, die-offs of animal populations, known as mass mortality events (MMEs), have increased in frequency and magnitude. The scale of these events can be staggering: billions of dead fish, hundreds of thousands ...
Ecology
Jan 23, 2024
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From late June to mid-July of 2021, the Pacific Northwest was scorched under an unprecedented heat dome, shattering temperature records and igniting a wave of concern over climate extremes. As cities like Portland and Seattle, ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 19, 2024
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A significant breakthrough in understanding Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) involving supermassive black holes has been discovered. The new simulations, for the first time ever, accurately replicate the entire sequence of ...
Astronomy
Jan 17, 2024
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By breaking down flooding analysis into its main physical mechanisms, researchers at Princeton have projected that climate change will markedly impact river basin flooding across the United States during the 21st century.
Earth Sciences
Jan 9, 2024
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Climate and land use changes are causing significant alterations in global terrestrial water storage, impacting extreme weather events such as floods and droughts, a Griffith University-led study has found.
Earth Sciences
Jan 9, 2024
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Butterfly populations in Catalonia in northern Spain are better than their UK counterparts at regulating their body temperature by basking in the sunshine, but rising global temperatures due to climate change may put Spanish ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 9, 2024
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The oldest evidence of photosynthetic structures reported to date has been identified inside a collection of 1.75-billion-year-old microfossils, a Nature paper reveals. The discovery helps to shed light on the evolution of ...
Evolution
Jan 4, 2024
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Last year, Typhoon Hinnamnor, which caused 36 fatalities, gained notoriety as the first super typhoon that developed at a high latitude as 25°N since Korea Meteorological Administration records began. This year in Osong, ...
Earth Sciences
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