Ambitious partnership needed for reliable climate prediction
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 16 June 2022; doi:10.1038/s41558-022-01384-8Current global climate models struggle to represent precipitation and related extreme events, with serious implications for...
Giving metal to microbes could reduce greenhouse gas
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Newly documented population of polar bears in Southeast Greenland sheds light on the species’...
Scientists have documented a previously unknown subpopulation of polar bears living in Southeast Greenland. The polar bears survive with limited access to sea ice...
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AI reveals scale of eelgrass vulnerability to warming, disease
A combination of ecological field methods and cutting-edge artificial intelligence has helped an interdisciplinary research group detect eelgrass wasting disease at nearly three dozen...
Preadolescents exposed to high levels of air pollution in their first years of life...
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Seagrass meadows are reliable fishing grounds for food
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Inadequate charging networks could thwart EV adoption goals
Encouraging the large-scale adoption of EVs is seen by many governments as a key pillar of efforts to build a carbon-neutral economy. But failing...
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A researcher has come up with a rule that connects channel belts to river patterns, finding that, in general, the more channels a river...
Hidden in plain sight: Biologists say southern right whale habitat choice is key to...
While researchers have speculated that the up to 50-foot-long whales choose shallow, coastal locations for lack of predators and warmer and calmer waters, a...
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