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Climate change is a topic that is debated, doubted and covered by news outlets across the world. Now an academic is researching the evolution...
California water managers vary in use of climate science
Lack of climate change adaptation among water utilities can put water supplies and the people dependent on them at risk, especially in marginalized communities,...
Pollution: A possible end to ‘forever’ chemicals
Synthetic chemicals known as per- and polyfluoroalkyls, or PFAS, contain bonds between carbon and fluorine atoms considered the strongest in organic chemistry. Unfortunately, the...
Native American groups take oil pipeline protests to White House.
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Regional dry-season climate changes due to three decades of Amazonian deforestation
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The study is performed over the deforested regions of the Brazilian state of Rondônia, which lie between 65° W, 60°...
Volcanic eruptions examiner
Volcanologists spent two weeks collecting samples from Yasur, a continuously erupting volcano on Tanna, an island in the remote South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu,...
New insights into biodiversity hotspots could help protect them from potential deep-sea mining
New insights into animal patterns around extinct submarine volcanoes could inform measures used to protect marine ecosystems from human activities, such as trawling and...
Melting ice sheets release tons of methane into the atmosphere
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Judge won't stop construction of Dakota Access pipeline.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge declined Tuesday to temporarily stop construction of the final section of the disputed Dakota Access oil pipeline,...
Poor outlook for biodiversity in Antarctica
The popular view that Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are in a much better environmental shape than the rest of the world has been...
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