Amid ongoing climate change, understanding how and where carbon is moving across ecosystems has become a top research priority. This type of "carbon accounting" helps scientists determine where the planet is sequestering ...
Environment
Jan 18, 2021
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In a year when a third of manatee fatalities in Florida were not investigated because COVID-19 restrictions limited necropsies and boat strikes once again topped deaths caused by humans, one indicator stood out: manatees ...
Ecology
Jan 11, 2021
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A landmark assessment by scientists at UNSW Sydney recommends the platypus be listed as a threatened species under Australia's and NSW environmental legislation.
Plants & Animals
Nov 23, 2020
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Computational models suggest that melting water originating in the deep interior of Greenland could flow the entire length of a subglacial valley and exit at Petermann Fjord, along the northern coast of the island. Updating ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 12, 2020
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This year marks a decade since the end of the Millennium Drought, when flood waters reached the mouth of the River Murray in 2010. For 1,200 days prior, Australia's most iconic river had ceased flowing to the sea, causing ...
Ecology
Nov 04, 2020
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How has the climate changed in the course of the Earth's history? Which climatic processes have influenced the Earth and its atmosphere? Paleoclimatology seeks answers to such questions in order to better understand climate ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 21, 2020
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A team of scientists at Utah State University has developed a new tool to forecast drought and water flow in the Colorado River several years in advance. Although the river's headwaters are in landlocked Wyoming and Colorado, ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 09, 2020
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This week, 156 people from the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, in Papua New Guinea, petitioned the Australian government to investigate Rio Tinto over a copper mine that devastated their homeland.
Environment
Oct 01, 2020
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An endangered fish in California might use its internal clock to decide when to migrate, according to a study by the University of Cincinnati.
Ecology
Sep 11, 2020
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In a world-first, the extent of human development in oceans has been mapped. An area totalling approximately 30,000 square kilometres—the equivalent of 0.008 percent of the ocean—has been modified by human construction, ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 31, 2020
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