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In an effort to fight the millions of tons of marine litter floating in the ocean, researchers have developed a new virtual tool to...
How to get salt out of water: Make it self-eject
Researchers have uncovered a mechanism by which dissolved salts can crystallize in a way that makes it easy to remove them from surfaces, potentially...
People of color hardest hit by air pollution from nearly all sources
Various studies show that people of color are disproportionately exposed to air pollution in the United States. However, it was unclear whether this unequal...
Uncertainty of future Southern Ocean CO2 uptake cut in half
The Southern Ocean dominates the oceanic uptake of humanmade CO2. But how much carbon dioxide can it actually absorb in the future? This long-standing...
In wild soil, predatory bacteria grow faster than their prey
In wild soil, bacteria that eat other bacteria consume more resources and grow faster than their prey, a new study finds. The results of...
Soil bacteria evolve with climate change
While evolution is normally thought of as occurring over millions of years, researchers have discovered that bacteria can evolve in response to climate change...
Socially just population policies can mitigate climate change and advance global equity
Socially just policies aimed at limiting the Earth's human population hold tremendous potential for advancing equity while simultaneously helping to mitigate the effects of...
Study finds green spaces linked to lower racial disparity in COVID infection rates, study...
More green spaces in an area is associated with a lower racial disparity in COVID-19 infection rates, according to the first study to examine...
Using cosmic-ray neutron bursts to understand gamma-ray bursts from lightning
Analysis of data from a lightning mapper and a small, hand-held radiation detector has unexpectedly shed light on what a gamma-ray burst from lightning...
Seasonal water resource on the Upper Indus
Seasonally occurring fields of aufeis (icing) constitute an important resource for the water supply of the local population in the Upper Indus Basin. Geographers...
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