In 2003, as Paris sweltered through a heat wave that would go on to kill an estimated 15,000 people across France, one oasis of cooler air remained off limits: the city's roughly 400 public parks. They were temporarily closed ...
Environment
Aug 19, 2024
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International researchers from Finland, Germany, South Africa, and Ethiopia report that deforestation during the last two decades induced a higher warming and cloud level rise than that caused by climate change, which threatens ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 19, 2024
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A multi-institutional team of environmental scientists has built a computer simulation showing that more than half of all people globally have limited access to safe drinking water. The findings are published in the journal ...
The bananas in your supermarket and that you eat for breakfast are facing functional extinction due to the disease Fusarium wilt of banana (FWB), caused by a fungal pathogen called Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense (Foc) tropical ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 16, 2024
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Time moves a tad faster on the moon. Now an international group of astronomers has joined calls to give the moon its own clock so that future space missions can keep track of minutes on the celestial body.
Space Exploration
Aug 15, 2024
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Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey tracked fire activity over the past 150 years by measuring carbon monoxide trapped in Antarctic ice. This gas is released, along with smoke and ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 9, 2024
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After more than a year of record-breaking heat, the peak of fire season is approaching across vast swathes of our green planet.
Environment
Aug 8, 2024
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Scientists at the University of Southampton have answered one of the most puzzling questions in plate tectonics: how and why "stable" parts of continents gradually rise to form some of the planet's greatest topographic features.
Earth Sciences
Aug 7, 2024
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One popular strategy to motivate people to get vaccinated is the nudge—a message designed to take advantage of human tendencies to conform to social norms, seek to protect loved ones or community, and to prefer treatments ...
Social Sciences
Aug 6, 2024
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Which packaging type for a 12-ounce, single-serve container of orange juice would you choose as the most sustainable option:
Environment
Jul 30, 2024
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