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29Jun

Systemic Perspective Needed for Effective Climate Risk Assessments and Adaptation Strategies

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainThe recently published Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on influences, adaptation, and vulnerability acknowledges that climate modification effects and dangers are becoming increasingly complex and more challenging to manage. Multiple weather dangers will happen together, and multiple climatic and non-climatic dangers will interact, resulting in worsening overall threats and...

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06Jun

The Snow-Capped Alps Are Going Green

A view of Piz Benina. Credit: CGTN.The renowned snow-capped peaks of the Alps are fading quick and being replaced by vegetation cover-- a procedure called "greening" that is predicted to increase climate change, a study said Thursday.The research, released in Science, was based on 38 years of satellite images throughout the entirety of the...

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29May

Earth’s Inside Structure – New Study Suggest More Details

The Earth illustration. Credit:NASA.Earth's inside Structure received new attention from scientists. A new study led by a College of Cambridge is the first to take a detailed picture of an unusual pocket of rock at the border layer with the Planet's core, some 3 thousand kilometers under the surface, giving new hope of understanding...

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25May

Greatest Efficiency 1-Sun Solar Cell

The record-setting solar cell shines red under blue luminescence. Credit: Printed Electronics World.Researchers at the U.S. Division of Energy's National Renewable resource Research Laboratory (NREL) developed a solar cell with a record 39.5% performance under 1-sun global illumination. This is the greatest effective solar cell of any kind, measured using standard 1-sun problems."The brand-new...

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25May

Researchers Create Techniques For the Seasonal Forecast of Western Wildfires

Scientists develop a method for seasonal prediction of western wildfires. Credit: NCAR & UCAR News.This summer's Western wildfire season is most likely to be more extreme than typical but not as devastating as in 2015's near-record, according to a speculative forecast method created by researchers at the National Facility for Atmospheric Study (NCAR).Using artificial...

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20Feb

United States Sea Levels Expected to Rise at a Faster Rate Than in Previous 100 Years

According to the most recent projections, sea levels along the United States coastline rise will rise quicker within the following three decades than they did in the previous 100 years, bringing more flooding to coastal cities like New York and Miami.According to a report led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, sea levels...

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08Feb

Global Elimination of Animal Farming Could Save the Planet

The elimination of all animal agriculture in the following 15 years would severely diminish greenhouse gas emissions and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.Research into the climatological impacts of raising animals for food implicates that eliminating all animal agriculture has the potentially to considerably change the direction of global warming.The project is a cooperation...

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17Dec

Intriguing Insect Fossils Protected in Brownish-Yellow Amber

LMU Zoologists Have Uncovered Examples of Ancient Amber-- Insect Larvae with Unusual Morphologies and Larvae of Early Flying InsectsAmber block containing a fossilized insect. Credit: De Agostini /R. Valterza/Getty Images. thoughtco.comEvery fossil is a time capsule. However, unlike numerous other finds, insects encapsulated in amber are often flawlessly preserved. According to Professor Joachim T....

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16Dec

How Legume Plants Provide Oxygen to Symbiotic Bacteria in their Roots

Legume Root nodules colored pink by leghaemoglobin and caused by a symbiotic relationship between the plant and beneficial bacteria. Credit: John Innes CentreThe discovery of the genetics inside legume plants that manage the production of an oxygen-carrying molecule essential to their relationship with nitrogen-fixing bacteria is a significant breakthrough in the field of sustainable...

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02Oct

Something Mysteriously Eliminated About 90 Percent of Sharks 19 Million Years Ago

Credit: GERARD SOURY/THE IMAGE BANK/GETTY IMAGESAround 19 million years ago, something horrible happened to sharks.Fossils amassed from sediments in the Pacific Ocean reveal a previously unidentified and shocking shark extinction event. During this event, the populations of the predators abruptly dropped by as much as 90 percent, researchers report in the journal Science on June 4....

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