Take a dive into seascape genomics
Category: Other Sciences
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Exceeding 1.5 °C requires rethinking accountability in climate policy
Around ten years after the Paris climate agreement was adopted, the world is again at a crucial moment. In 2015, 195 countries committed to hold global warming “well below 2 °C” and to “pursue efforts to limit warming to 1.5 °C” to…
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Defending endangered trees against climate change and hungry goats
“Socotra, the Yemeni island that I’m from, has the world’s last dragon’s blood tree (Dracaena cinnabari) forest. We have other threatened plants too, including cucumber trees (Dendrosicyos socotranus) and Boswellia spp., also known as…
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Conflicted public perceptions of different net-zero mitigation pathways between feasibility and desirability
Geden, O. An actionable climate target. Nat. Geosci. 9, 340–342 (2016).
Rogelj, J., Geden, O., Cowie, A. & Reisinger, A. Three ways to improve net-zero emissions targets. Nature 591,…
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Global gridded dataset of heating and cooling degree days under climate change scenarios
IPCC Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change (eds Shukla, P. R. et al.) 953–1048 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2023); https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009157926.011
Khosla, R. et al. Cooling for sustainable development. Nat. Sustain. 4, 201–208…
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Carbon sequestration for geological negative emissions of the shale gas value chain in China
Aloulou, F. & Zaretskaya, V. China extracts commercially viable natural gas from deeper shale formations. Today Energy https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=63284 (2024).
PetroChina National High-end Think Tank Research Center. China…
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Challenges and opportunities in scaling climate-resilient housing solutions in the United States
Porter, K., et al.. Resilience Incentivization Roadmap 2.0. https://www.nibs.org/files/pdfs/NIBS_MMC_resilience-incentivization-roadmap2_2023.pdf (2023).
U.S. Census Bureau. Phase 4.1 cycle 04 household pulse survey: April 2 – April 29. (2024).
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Period pain and heavy bleeding cost the Australian economy billions every year in lost productivity
While period pain and heavy menstrual bleeding are common, they’re often dealt with privately. Yet they take a profound toll on a person’s health—and finances.
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CEO accents play role in everyday investors' decision-making, but not professionals, study finds
Within the S&P 500, only a small fraction of chief executive officers speak with an accent or come from foreign backgrounds. The figure hovers around 10%. However, their share of the market is substantial.
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New DNA analysis rewrites the story of the Beachy Head Woman
A long-standing mystery surrounding a Roman-era skeleton discovered in southern England may finally be close to an answer.
Earlier studies suggested the young woman, known as the Beachy Head Woman, may have had recent ancestry from sub-Saharan…
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