Science

Salt Scourge: The Dual Threat of Warming and Rising Salinity

The Mekong Delta is under a chemical threat arguably more deadly for the long term than the Agent Orange deployed across it during...

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Thawing permafrost is roiling the Arctic landscape, driven by a hidden world of changes beneath the surface as the climate warms

Across the Arctic, strange things are happening to the landscape. Massive lakes, several square miles in size, have disappeared in...

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The massive, unregulated source of plastic pollution you’ve probably never heard of

NEW ORLEANS — On an overcast day in April, on the edge of Chalmette Battlefield, a few miles outside the city, Liz Marchio exami...

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How phantom forests are used for greenwashing

Capturing carbon by increasing forest cover has become central to the fight against climate change. But there's a problem. Sometim...

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Climate change experts say India’s heatwave offers the world a terrifying glimpse into the future

Every year, more than a billion people sweat their way through India and Pakistan's dreaded heatwaves, which usually begin in lat...

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How the African rainforest is helping fight climate change

In the midst of the African rainforest, one elusive animal wreaks havoc on vegetation – and in doing so, offers a big favour for...

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Climate Change Will Accelerate Viral Spillovers, Study Finds

Over the next 50 years, climate change will drive thousands of viruses to jump from one species of mammal to another, according ...

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South Korea’s giant floating solar flowers offer hope for unpopular large-scale projects

More than 92,000 solar panels in the shape of plum blossoms, floating on the surface of a reservoir in South Korea, offer a vision...

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Engineering the ocean

Once you know what plankton can do, you’ll understand why fertilising the ocean with iron is not such a crazy idea...

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Climate change is killing off soil organisms critical for some of Earth’s ecosystems

Just as our skin is key to our well-being, the “skin” covering desert soils is essential to life in dry places. This “biocru...

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Why we still don’t yet know how bad climate migration will get

As sea levels rise, temperatures become unbearable, and disasters grow more severe, tens of millions of people may not be able to ...

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1,000-year-old oaks used to create ‘super forest’

Planting more trees is one of a combination of solutions to combating climate change, but some trees are far better than others. W...

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