Science

58% of human infectious diseases can be worsened by climate change – we scoured 77,000 studies to map the pathways

Climate change can exacerbate a full 58% of the infectious diseases that humans come in contact with worldwide, from common wate...

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World’s glaciers are melting faster than expected, with visible consequences

the Alpine glaciers. As in many other parts of the world, the consequences are increasingly visible in the Alps, where the glaci...

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‘Inspiring to see’: scientists show how forests of kelp can potentially be brought back to life

Underwater forests off Tasmania’s east coast used to be so dense they were marked as shipping hazards on nautical charts. Thrivi...

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Bringing Back the Beasts: Global Rewilding Plans Take Shape

For thousands of years, bison herds thundered freely throughout the Chihuahuan Desert on both sides of what is now the U.S.-Mexico...

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Methane-reducing seaweed asparagopsis up for sale after years of research

After years of frantic research and fast-tracked commercial licensing, cattle feedlots can now buy asparagopsis, a native Australi...

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Humans can’t endure temperatures and humidities as high as previously thought

As climate change nudges the global temperature higher, there is rising interest in the maximum environmental conditions like heat...

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Solution or Band-Aid? Carbon Capture Projects Are Moving Ahead

This summer, the Norwegian company Northern Lights will be drilling a second well line into an aquifer some 8,500 feet below the s...

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When the world actually solved an environmental crisis

1985, atmospheric scientists in Antarctica noticed something troubling. For decades, they’d been measuring the thickness of the ...

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Researchers push for carbon credit payments for Australian farmers who fence their dams

Scientists are lobbying for farmers to be financially rewarded in the form of carbon credits for cleaning up their dams. Deakin re...

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Sky high: Carbon dioxide levels in air spike past milestone

The amount of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has shot past a key milestone -- more than 50% higher than pre-indust...

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The wonder material graphene may have found its killer app

Close to where the college rowing teams of Britain’s second-oldest university practise their strokes along the River Cam, a grey...

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Tropical rainforests dying at twice the rate from drier, hotter conditions, study finds

One of the longest-running scientific studies of tropical forests has revealed rainforest trees are dying twice as fast as they we...

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