Have you been hearing about the dire wolf lately? Maybe you saw a massive white wolf on the cover of Time magazine or a photo of “Game of Thrones” author George R.R. Martin holding a puppy named after a character from his books.
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Category: 9. Environment
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Eucalyptus boom in Brazil’s Cerrado dries up springs, forces out smallholders
A eucalyptus boom in Brazil’s biodiverse Cerrado savanna is drying up land and water springs, making subsistence farming more difficult, local authorities and farmers tell…
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Scientists find new clues about frontiers of ocean life
In 2008, the United Nations recognized June 8 as World Oceans Day to spotlight the rising vulnerabilities facing the oceans that cover more than 70% of Earth’s surface.
Seventeen…
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Unnoticed oil & gas threat looms for Indigenous people near Amazon blocks
- While oil prospects in the Amazon north shore attract international attention, the offer of exploration blocks around Indigenous territories goes unnoticed in Mato Grosso state.
- Brazil will auction 21 blocks in the…
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The reaches, limits and (alleged) biases of feasibility studies and environmental licenses
- In the last 20 years, EIA has become a factor already incorporated into the strategic planning of countries, where the potential trade-offs arising from environmental and social impacts are of great importance.
- This…
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Infamous ‘Gateway to Hell’ Fire Could Finally Stop Raging After 50 Years : ScienceAlert
Turkmenistan said Thursday it had significantly reduced a gas fire that has been raging for half a century at a site dubbed the “Gateway to Hell” .
The fire has been burning in the Karakum desert since 1971, when Soviet scientists accidentally…
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Researchers race to understand new disease killing Caribbean corals at unprecedented rates
- Stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) is a novel coral disease that first emerged in Florida in 2014, and has now spread to 33 countries and territories in the Caribbean, including along the Mesoamerican…
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Air quality prediction based on factor analysis combined with Transformer and CNN-BILSTM-ATTENTION models
Data preprocessing and visualization
Data cleaning
To ensure the integrity of the time series data and address issues of missing values, we used the column-wise mean value imputation method. By filling in missing values with the column mean, the…
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Spatiotemporal variations of precipitation and driving forces during wheat maturation season in Henan Province
Characteristics of temporal variation of wheat maturation rain
The temporal trends of total rainfall, rainfall days, maximum daily rainfall and rainfall intensity of wheat maturation rain in Henan Province are shown in Fig. 2. From the figure, it…
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Investigating the impact of meteorological parameters on daily soil temperature changes using machine learning models
The findings of this study reinforce and extend the conclusions of prior research in soil temperature modeling. For instance, Citakoglu18 demonstrated that ANFIS and ANN models outperform classical statistical methods for ST estimation. Building…
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