Plants capture around half the carbon we emit by burning fossil fuels, making them a crucial part of mitigating climate change. ...
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As carbon dioxide levels rise and the Earth’s poles warm, researchers are predicting a decline in the planet’s wind speeds. Th...
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Scientists say they have identified the mechanism through which air pollution triggers lung cancer in non-smokers, a discovery one...
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ON A GRASSY plateau overlooking a valley in central China, two officials stood by as a small, thin rocket blasted off from the re...
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From the Danube to the Loire, Europe’s prime rivers — lifelines for the continent’s economy — are running low after a brut...
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A team of researchers with the Ocean Cleanup project and Wageningen University, both in the Netherlands, has found via sampling an...
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Hannah Lewis couldn’t stop reading. She knew she was on to something. An article in her local paper described how, facing a prop...
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Researchers from Tel Aviv University and the Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Institute in Haifa have developed an i...
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Talks to pass the UN High Seas Treaty had been ongoing for two weeks in New York, but governments could not agree on the terms. De...
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IN THE SUMMER of 2019, Roman Dial and his friend Brad Meiklejohn hired a single-engine bush plane out of Kotzebue, on the northwe...
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Across Russia, Europe, Indonesia, the Amazon Basin, North America, Australia, and beyond, we have watched fires blaze across lands...
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Even while drought is bringing many of Europe’s rivers to record lows and damaging biodiversity, the threat of catastrophic floo...
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