Flooding from torrential rain in northeastern China has killed at least 60 people since July 29, according to Xia Linmao, the deputy mayor of Beijing, China’s capital city.
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Category: 9. Environment
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Climate-driven physiological changes in Mahseer (Tor tambroides) juveniles
Water quality
The significant alterations in water quality parameters observed in this study reflect the synergistic impact of elevated CO2 and temperature on freshwater aquaculture systems. As shown in Table 1, the progressive decline in pH with…
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Spatiotemporal analysis of CMIP6-based climate extremes and their implications for sustainable watershed management in the Gidabo watershed, Ethiopia
IPCC. Climate Change. The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (2021). https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/chapter/chapter-4/
Usman, S., Jayeoba, J….
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Drone swarms and AI take aim at stopping wildfires in 10 minutes
Fifteen teams have advanced to the semifinal round of XPRIZE’s $5 million Autonomous Wildfire Response Track, moving one step closer to proving that autonomous systems can detect…
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Uncovering forest loss in gorilla park six months after M23 offensive in the DRC
- Six months since M23 armed rebels took control of provincial capitals in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local activists and satellite imagery collected by Mongabay have identified sites of expanding…
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A sales-pitch pivot brings deep-sea mining closer to reality
- Early on, Canada-based The Metals Company cast the rocks it seeks to mine from the deep seafloor as a crucial resource for electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies,…
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As UN plastic treaty talks face possible deadlock, what are the ways forward?
- In August, representatives of the world’s nations will meet in Geneva, Switzerland, to hopefully finalize a U.N. plastic treaty. But negotiators remain far apart, with an overwhelming number of nations wanting a…
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Indigenous leadership and science revive Panama’s degraded lands
Two Indigenous groups in Panama are collaborating with researchers in a long-term reforestation project that promises them income in return for growing native trees for carbon…
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Inuit leader Sara Olsvig on ocean politics
- Sara Olsvig chairs the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC), which represents some 180,000 Inuit people across Alaska (in the United States), Canada, Kalaallit Nunaat (the Inuit name for Greenland) and Chukotka (in…
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Recently contacted Indigenous in Peru want REDD+ and conservationists to stay away
- Indigenous people in the Peruvian Amazon who have only recently come into contact with the outside world have created their own federation to stand against conservation projects they say benefit from their forests…
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