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July 24, 2023

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Climate Science Is Catching Up to Climate Change With Predictions That Could Improve Proactive Response

In Africa, climate change impacts are experienced as extreme events like drought and floods. It has now been possible to predict and monitor these climatic events, providing early warning of their impacts on agriculture to support humanitarian and ...

Greenland Melted Recently: High Risk of Sea Level Rise Today

A large portion of Greenland was an ice-free tundra landscape -- perhaps covered by trees and roaming woolly mammoths -- in the recent geologic past (about 416,000 years ago), a new study shows. The results help overturn a previous view that much of the Greenland ice sheet persisted for most of the ...

Important Groups of Phytoplankton Tolerate Some Strategies to Remove CO2 from the Ocean

Humanity has a long track record of making big changes with little forethought. From fossil fuels to AI, plastics to pesticides, we love innovating away our problems, only to find we've created different ones. So it can be refreshing to hear about ...

How Do Microbes Spread Globally? A Study Clarifies How They Travel from End to End of the World

A new study compiles the scope of the problem of the global dispersal of harmful microorganisms through the upper layers of the ...
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The Ocean's Color Is Changing as a Consequence of Climate Change

The ocean's color has changed significantly in 20 years, and the trend is likely a consequence of human-induced climate change, report ...

Marine Fossils Are a Reliable Benchmark for Degrading and Collapsing Ecosystems

人类开始之前rec改变环境ords were kept of the things that lived in them, making it difficult for scientists to determine what healthy ecosystems should look like. ...

Scientists Discover 36-Million-Year Geological Cycle That Drives Biodiversity

Movement in the Earth's tectonic plates indirectly triggers bursts of biodiversity in 36 million-year cycles by forcing sea levels to rise and fall, new research has ...

Global Cooling Caused Diversity of Species in Orchids, Confirms Study

Research shows global cooling of the climate 10 million years ago led to an explosion of diversity in terrestrial ...

Navigating the Future of Underwater Geolocalization: How Polarization Patterns Enable New Technology

Beneath the water's surface lays a hidden world: one that cannot be perceived by the human eye. When viewed through a special camera, however, rich polarization patterns are unveiled. These ...

Conservation in Indonesia Is at Risk, a Team of Researchers Who Study the Region Argues

Indonesia, home to the largest tropical rainforest in Southeast Asia and over 17,500 islands, is a country packed with biodiversity and endangered species. However, scientists studying the ...

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Arctic Dust Found to Be a Major Source of Particles That Form Ice Crystals in Arctic Low-Level Clouds

Scientists in Japan have used a global climate model to show that dust from land without snow cover in the Arctic is a major source of particles that form ice crystals in Arctic low-level clouds. ...

Why There Are No Kangaroos in Bali (and No Tigers in Australia)

Researchers are using a new model to clarify why millions of years ago more animal species from Asia made the leap to the Australian continent than vice versa. The climate in which the species ...

Researchers Offer a Tropical Perspective on Marine Conservation

To achieve tangible solutions for ocean conservation, a new article suggests that we should listen to the people who are most affected by the current problems facing the ocean: the people in the ...

Shrinking Arctic Glaciers Are Unearthing a New Source of Methane

As the Arctic warms, shrinking glaciers are exposing bubbling groundwater springs which could provide an underestimated source of the potent greenhouse gas methane, finds new ...

Tracking Ships' Icy Paths Amidst Climate Change

理解当and where ships are entering areas of Arctic sea ice can help elucidate the potential impacts of vessel traffic in the ...

Why the Day Is 24 Hours Long: Astrophysicists Reveal Why Earth's Day Was a Constant 19.5 Hours for Over a Billion Years

Astrophysicists have revealed how the slow and steady lengthening of Earth's day caused by the tidal pull of the moon was halted for over a billion years. They show that from approximately two ...

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Earth's Inner Core: Earth's Solid Metal Sphere Is 'Textured'

Scientists used seismic data discovered Earth's inner core displays a variety of textures that it acquired will it formed from within the fluid outer core. The data set was generated over the ...

Three Things to Know: Climate Change's Impact on Extreme-Weather Events

Researchers found that the effects of climate change on the intensity, frequency, and duration of extreme weather events, like wildfires, could lead to massive increases in all ...

New Study Reveals Abrupt Shift in Tropical Pacific Climate During Little Ice Age

An El Niño event has officially begun. The climate phenomenon, which originates in the tropical Pacific and occurs in intervals of a few years will shape weather across the planet for the next year ...

水Storage Capacity in Oceanic Crust Slabs Increases With Age, Researchers Find

一个国际研究小组已经发现a subduction zone's age affects the ability for it to recycle water between the Earth's surface and its inner layers. The more mature the ...

Expanding Large-Scale Agriculture Is Escalating Flooding in the Largest South American Breadbasket

Driven by soaring international demand, extensive areas of grasslands, and forests across South American plains have rapidly been converted to the production of annual crops, such as soybean and ...

Sponges and Their Microbiome: Interacting for Millions of Years

Researchers demonstrate that sponges react to changes in their microbiome with extensive modifications in gene ...

Research Reveals Sources of CO2 from Aleutian-Alaska Arc Volcanoes

Scientists have wondered what happens to the organic and inorganic carbon that Earth's Pacific Plate carries with it as it slides into the planet's interior along the volcano-studded Ring ...

What Controls the Pathways of the Labrador Current?

Changes to the flow of the Labrador Current along the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador to Nova Scotia are leading to sudden warmings or drops in the oxygen levels of the waters in several regions ...

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