Earth’s climate is heating up faster than expected, and a major culprit is the changing behavior of clouds over oceans. As these clouds reflect less sunlight into space, more heat is trapped, accelerating climate change. New research highlights…
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Cleaner Air, Hotter Earth – The Unexpected Climate Connection
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California’s Largest Lake Is Drying Up – And the Consequences Are Startling
The dried lakebed is generating polluted dust from agricultural runoff, impacting nearby communities. A newly published study reveals that the Salton Sea, California’s largest lake by surface area, is experiencing an accelerated shoreline…
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Scientists Uncover How a Melting Arctic Is Driving Droughts and Extreme Weather
New research reveals that Arctic sea ice loss can disrupt weather worldwide, making California drier while increasing winter humidity in parts of Europe. Using advanced models, scientists isolated this effect, showing how melting ice alters…
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Hubble Reveals New Insights into Kuiper Belt’s Triple Systems
Can asteroids orbit each other in pairs of three, also called a three-body or triple system, like stars? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of…
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New Methane Flare Tech: Efficiency Plus Combustion Stability
Can methane flare burners be advanced to produce less methane? This is what a recent study published in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research hopes to address as a team of researchers from the University…
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Predicting the Future: When Will the Next Ice Age Begin?
Earth has experienced several climate cycles throughout its long history, including several ice ages that caused the planet to freeze over. The last ice age occurred approximately 11,700 years ago, but when…
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Tracking Carbon-Capturing Fungal Networks with Robotics
Scientists have developed a method that uses robotics to track the links between plants and the symbiotic or mycorrhizal fungi that grow alongside of them; these physical links move supplies like carbon and…
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New AI Method Revolutionizes Urban Green Space Mapping
How can artificial intelligence (AI) help improve city planning to account for more green spaces? This is what a recent study published in the ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies hopes to…
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Giant Glaciers Reshaped Earth’s Surface and Paved Way for Complex Life
By chemically analyzing crystals in ancient rocks, scientists from Curtin University, the University of Portsmouth and St. Francis Xavier University discovered that as glaciers carved through the landscape after the Neoproterozoic ‘snowball…
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Mars May Have Once Had Oceanfront Beaches
Did an ocean exist on ancient Mars that might have been suitable for life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as an…
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