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Shift away from earthen homes ‘environmentally damaging’
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Salt marsh resilience compromised by crabs along tidal creek edges
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How wildfire restored a Yosemite watershed
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Climate change widespread, rapid, and intensifying: IPCC
Scientists are observing changes in the Earth's climate in every region and across the whole climate system, according to the latest IPCC Report. Many...
Birds’ eye size reflects habitat and diet, may predict sensitivity to environmental change
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Historical warming consistently decreased size, dispersal and speciation rate of fish
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 09 August 2021; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01123-5Phylogenetic data over the past ~150 million years show smaller fish occurred in warmer waters, moved shorter...
Differences in the temperature dependence of wetland CO<sub>2</sub> and CH<sub>4</sub> emissions vary with water...
Nature Climate Change, Published online: 09 August 2021; doi:10.1038/s41558-021-01108-4Climate change may result in larger releases of CH4 than CO2 from wetlands as CH4 emissions...
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