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Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 January 2022; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01249-6Land degradation in drylands impacts livelihoods and productivity and is affected by biocrusts that stabilize the...
A regime shift in seasonal total Antarctic sea ice extent in the twentieth century
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 10 January 2022; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01254-9Antarctic sea ice extent is thought to be stable or increasing, in contrast to Arctic declines....
Current marsh pollution has dramatic, negative effects on sea anemone’s survival
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