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Southern resident killer whales not getting enough to eat since 2018
The endangered southern resident killer whale population isn't getting enough to eat, and hasn't been since 2018, a new study has determined. The animals...
Barcelona to ban old cars from roads to tackle air pollution.
Motorists will be prohibited from driving vehicles older than 20 years on weekdays from 2019 in effort to cut emissions
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Barcelona city council says the...
Greenhouse gases: First it was cows, now it’s larvae
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The key role of forests in meeting climate targets requires science for credible mitigation
Figure 2 compares the historical LULUCF trend from our analysis with three other well-known global LULUCF data sets: (i) latest country reports to UNFCCC (refs 13,15,16,20); (ii) FAOSTAT...
Canary in the kelp forest: Sea creature dissolves in today’s warming, acidic waters
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The Keystone XL pipeline wins a battle, but faces a new war.
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Pink + pink = gold: hybrid hummingbird’s feathers don’t match its parents
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The long memory of the Pacific Ocean
Cold waters that sank in polar regions hundreds of years ago during the Little Ice Age are still impacting deep Pacific Ocean temperature trends....
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