One of the important applications of climate knowledge is in the area of disasters. Being able to predict the scale of a potential disaster and the risks a disaster could impose on a community in the future is valuable and ...
Environment
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Polarization, the direction in which light vibrates, provides a lot of information about the objects with which it interacts, from aerosols in the atmosphere to the magnetic field of stars. However, because this quality ...
Optics & Photonics
Mar 18, 2022
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In just three days in late January, a mass of ice the size of Philadelphia fragmented from the Larsen-B embayment on the Antarctic Peninsula and floated away, after persisting there for more than a decade. NASA satellites ...
Environment
Mar 14, 2022
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What senses do birds use? Obviously, they use hearing and sight—after all, they sing and often have colorful plumage. But what about the sense of smell? For a long time, it was thought that olfaction played no role in birds. ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 14, 2022
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At the time Australia was colonized by Europeans, an estimated 180 mammal species lived in the continent's northern savannas. The landscape teemed with animals, from microbats to rock-wallabies and northern quolls. Many of ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 7, 2022
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Significant societal and political transitions, such as Brexit, can impact employee wellbeing—although not necessarily in the ways that might be expected. Researchers based at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), ...
Social Sciences
Mar 3, 2022
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Researchers have found a way to remotely determine if protected female bottlenose dolphins are expecting a calf using aerial photos taken from drones.
Plants & Animals
Feb 24, 2022
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The world underground is a busy place, with everything from fat nightcrawlers to microscopic fungi forming a community of workers that break down plant material to free nutrients—processes that are vital to sustaining life ...
Environment
Feb 23, 2022
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Permafrost—ground that has been permanently frozen for two or more years—makes up a large part of the Earth, around 15% of the Northern Hemisphere.
Earth Sciences
Feb 22, 2022
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Internal waves are widely distributed in the ocean, and their amplitude can reach hundreds of meters, affecting the ocean environment.
Earth Sciences
Feb 17, 2022
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