A research team led by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities has completed a first-ever global population estimate of Weddell seals in Antarctica, showing that there are significantly fewer seals than previously thought. ...
Plants & Animals
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Wildfires in Siberia, North America and around the Mediterranean caused record levels of planet-warming CO2 emissions this summer, the EU's Earth monitoring service said Tuesday.
Environment
Sep 21, 2021
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Researchers flying a radar instrument over coastal wetlands in Louisiana helped with monitoring oil slicks in the Gulf of Mexico.
Planetary Sciences
Sep 21, 2021
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Researchers have completed a comprehensive online map of the world's coral reefs by using more than 2 million satellite images from across the globe.
Plants & Animals
Sep 8, 2021
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Finding and collecting the best lunar samples will be a major task for the next astronauts on the moon. ESA's Pangaea training campaign launches today to equip astronauts with a geologist's eye on the moon—humanity's next ...
Space Exploration
Sep 6, 2021
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Andy Farquhar's plans for an outdoor adventure have gone up in smoke twice this summer.
Environment
Sep 5, 2021
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Using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), astronomers have detected three new ultra-faint dwarf galaxies associated with the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 253. The newly found dwarfs turn out to be among the faintest systems so ...
Russia's top criminal investigation agency on Thursday probed an oil spill off the country's Black Sea coast that appeared hugely bigger than initially reported.
Environment
Aug 12, 2021
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A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S., Brazil and Argentina has found that land dedicated to growing soybeans in South America has doubled over the past 20 years. In their paper published ...
Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon reached a record in June for the fourth consecutive month, according to official data released Friday.
Environment
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