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The first broad-scale assessment of ocean-based measures to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide, counteract ocean warming and/or reduce ocean acidification and sea-level rise shows their...
These 80-year-olds have the brains of 30-year-olds
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Tropics are widening as predicted by climate models, research finds
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Roadmap for measuring animal, plant traits to meet biodiversity goals
An international team of researchers has outlined a plan for how to measure changes in key traits of animals and plants and provide these...
How to build an emergency supply kit in a hurry
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Parsing natural climate variability from human-caused climate change
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Adapt, move or die: How biodiversity reacted to past climate change
A new paper reviews current knowledge on climate change and biodiversity. In the past, plants and animals reacted to environmental changes by adapting, migrating...
Recycling waste water bottles into mission critical parts with 3D printing (video)
Teams operating in remote sites on military or humanitarian missions can be stalled by broken equipment. They could soon be turning their own wastes...
What’s behind the retreating kelps and expanding corals?
Climate change and other external forces are causing rapid marine community shifts in Japan's coastal ecosystems. Better understanding of species distribution dynamics, as driven...
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