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Cause, scope determined for deadly winter debris flow in Uttarakhand, India
The Uttarakhand region of India experienced a humanitarian tragedy on Feb. 7, 2021, when a wall of debris and water barreled down the Ronti...
World-first discovery could fuel the new green ammonia economy
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Bacteria: Serving tasty solution to global plastic crisis
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Bacteria-sized robots take on microplastics and win by breaking them down
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For bay oysters, protection plus restoration creates healthiest reefs
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Indigenous mortality following Spanish colonization did not always lead to forest regrowth, study finds
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Noise and light pollution can change which birds visit our backyards
Using more than 3.4 million citizen scientist observations of 140 different bird species across the continental U.S., researchers found that common bird species avoided...
Declining growth rates of global coral reef ecosystems
If the trend of declining coral growth continues at the current rate, the world's coral reefs may cease calcifying around 2054, a new study...
Dinosaurs lived in greenhouse climate with hot summers, study shows
Researchers have developed an innovative way to use the clumped isotope method to reconstruct climate in the geological past on the seasonal scale. They...
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