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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 22 September 2022; doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01483-6Wealthy countries failed to meet their US$100 billion climate finance pledge, and research now suggests that...
Consistent and replicable estimation of bilateral climate finance
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 22 September 2022; doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01482-7A reliable and consistent inventory is important for the international community to track and promote the...
Enabling the right to a healthy environment
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 22 September 2022; doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01487-2Recent recognition of the human right to a healthy environment by the United Nations can facilitate...
Ocean scientists measure sediment plume stirred up by deep-sea-mining vehicle
Scientists measured a sediment plume stirred up by a protoype of a deep-sea-mining vehicle to help gauge the impact of such vehicles if they...
Improved air quality accelerates global warming in recent decades
An international research team has used satellite data to demonstrate that concentrations of pollutant particles have decreased significantly since the year 2000. This is...
Now you don’t have to wait for smoke to know where fires are likely...
Scientists have developed a way to forecast which of the Great Basin's more than 60 million acres have the highest probability of a large...
Greek volcano mystery: Archaeologist narrows on date of Thera eruption
Archaeologists hope to settle one of modern archaeology's longstanding disputes: the date of a volcanic eruption on the Greek island of Santorini, traditionally known...
Hibernating bears’ ability to regulate insulin narrowed down to eight proteins
Feeding honey to hibernating bears helped researchers find the potential genetic keys to the bears' insulin control, an advance that could ultimately lead to...
Artificial soft surface autonomously mimics shapes of nature
Engineers have developed a scalable soft surface that can continuously reshape itself to mimic objects in nature. Relying on electromagnetic actuation, mechanical modeling and...
No evidence that dehorning black rhinos negatively impacts the species’ reproduction or survival, study...
There are no statistically significant differences in key factors of population growth -- breeding, birth, survival, life span and death -- between dehorned or...
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