With impacts of climate change like the extreme heatwaves in Canada and Italy and the severe floods in Europe and China, 2021 has been a year of new records and fear for the future. For large parts of eastern Asia, however, ...
Environment
Nov 11, 2021
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Scientists have identified a new mechanism to account for the drastic aridification in eastern Africa over the past two million years, with likely implications for understanding the evolution and dispersal of our early human ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 28, 2021
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Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky in the morning, sailor's warning. The adage holds some truth: the relationship between ocean and atmosphere can be smooth sailing or stormy. Yet, despite extensive research on their ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 18, 2021
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A new study led by scientists at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, in collaboration with scientists at Princeton University, shows that the intensification of global hydrological ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 23, 2021
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An international team, which includes researchers from IRD and CNRS, published a novel Marine Protected Areas (MPA) guide in the journal Science on 9 September 2021. The aim is to advance the global community's understanding ...
Ecology
Sep 16, 2021
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New Curtin research has found the moon may have been subjected to much greater impacts from asteroids and other bodies than previously thought, building on our understanding of the moon's earliest geologic evolution.
Astronomy
Sep 14, 2021
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Rather than ocean oxygen levels improving as they usually do this time of year, hypoxia off the Pacific Northwest coast is as bad as it's been at any point in 2021, according to collaborative research by Oregon State University, ...
Environment
Sep 9, 2021
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As Hurricane Ida headed into the Gulf of Mexico, a team of scientists was closely watching a giant, slowly swirling pool of warm water directly ahead in its path.
Environment
Sep 1, 2021
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Larval fish are spawned in a given location and may be recruited into their next life stage—larger, older fish—in the same place or a distant location. The recruitment of rabbitfish in Guam and groupers in Palau has historically ...
Ecology
Aug 25, 2021
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The Earth's deepest diamonds are commonly made up of former living organisms that have effectively been recycled more than 400 kilometers below the surface, new Curtin research has discovered.
Earth Sciences
Aug 24, 2021
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