When President Donald Trump announced in early 2025 that he was withdrawing the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement for the second time, it triggered fears that the move would undermine global efforts to slow climate change and diminish…
Category: 9. Environment
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As Indonesia reclaims forests from palm oil, smallholders bear brunt of enforcement
- Indonesian authorities have reclaimed 2 million hectares (5 million acres) of forest from illegal oil palm plantations under a militarized crackdown, but critics say it disproportionately targets Indigenous…
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Rising heat threatens female-male ratio of India’s unique gharial crocs
For India’s critically endangered gharial, a fish-eating crocodile with a slender snout that ends in a bulbous growth, heat is emerging as a major threat, reports contributor…
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Domestic cats pose interbreeding threat to little known wildcat ancestor
Domestic cats are hugely popular as pets, yet little is known about their ancestor, the Afro-Asiatic wildcat. This species, Felis lybica, is the most widely distributed wildcat in…
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Incredible Ice Core Captures 12,000 Years Of European Climate History : ScienceAlert
An ice core sample from the European Alps has been the first to be dated to the last Ice Age, providing vital historical environmental data stretching back across the last 12,000 years.
The discovery was made by scientists led by a team from…
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Abiotic reactions drive post-wetting soil emissions of N2O and NO and contribute partially to CO2 emissions
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Rey, A., Oyonarte, C., Morán-López, T., Raimundo, J. &…
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Advanced air quality prediction using multimodal data and dynamic modeling techniques
The proposed hybrid model and the existing CNN-LSTM Hybrid Model, GNNS, Bi-LSTM, and CNN-GNN Hybrid Model were implemented on the AQD multimodal dataset, and various performance measuring parameters (as presented in Table 6) were calculated.
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Variation of vegetation cover and the relationship with land surface temperature across Thailand (2007 to 2022)
The annual mean changes in Land Surface Temperature (LST) across four years (2007–2020) illustrated Fig. 2, characterized by three seasons of Thailand such as dry, rainy, and winter. The study also found that the mean LST increased in all six…
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Effects of atmospheric systems operating in the Northeast of Brazil on the volumes of artificial reservoirs
Position of the ITCZ and its climate impact in the volume of the reservoirs in the NNEB
The annual cycle of the ITCZ position over the Ocean Atlantic domain shows (Fig. 2) a well-defined cycle. The ITCZ begins to migrate towards the southern…
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Forget decrees; try patience. Martin Goebel plays the long game in conserving Baja California.
- Martin Goebel champions a patient, relationship-based approach to conservation, focusing on community trust and long-term collaboration rather than top-down mandates or rapid results.
- Through LegacyWorks and its…
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