Mythbusting: Five common misperceptions surrounding the environmental impacts of single-use plastics
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Amazon floodplain trees emit as much methane as all Earth’s oceans combined
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Endangered petrels and trawl fishing clash in Tasman sea
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Craft: EPA administrator should see Houston's post-Harvey pollution firsthand.
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Global warming may be twice what climate models predict
Future global warming may eventually be twice as warm as projected by climate models under business-as-usual scenarios and even if the world meets the...
Revisiting the Kobe earthquake and the variations of atmospheric radon concentration
Researchers have unearthed further details about radon concentration in the atmosphere before and after earthquakes, moving us closer to being able to anticipate when...
Elon Musk exposes deep coal divide in Australia.
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Scientists shed light on carbon’s descent into the deep Earth
The presence of carbonates in the Earth's mantle is known from diamond inclusions, but how carbon is transported there remains a mystery. Scientists now...
Rare bee found after 100 years
A widespread field search for a rare Australian native bee not recorded for almost a century has found it's been there all along -...
Groundwater pumping has significantly reduced US stream flows
Groundwater pumping in the last century has contributed as much as 50% to stream flow declines in some US rivers. This is the first...
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