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Emissions could add 15 inches to 2100 sea level rise, NASA-led study finds

An international effort that brought together more than 60 ice, ocean and atmosphere scientists from three dozen international institutions has generated new estimates of how much of an impact Earth’s…

Evergreen needles act as air quality monitors

Measuring magnetic particles on needles reveals particulate air pollution. Every tree, even an evergreen, can be an air quality monitor. That’s the conclusion of researchers at the University of Utah…

Researchers find cuttlebone’s microstructure sits at a ‘sweet spot’

Ling Li has a lesson in one of his mechanical engineering courses on how brittle materials like calcium carbonate behave under stress. In it, he takes a piece of chalk…

Scientists map freshwater transport in the Arctic Ocean

The Ob, Yenisei, and Lena rivers flow into the Kara and Laptev seas and account for about half of the total freshwater runoff to the Arctic Ocean. The transport and…

94 percent of tropical coral reef habitats at risk

In a joint study, scientists from Jacobs University Bremen, the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) and the University of Bremen have for the first time predicted the vulnerability…

Suez and Panama Canals as hotspots for invasive alien species

Invasive alien species are one of the main threats to the biodiversity of natural habitats worldwide. They can cause severe ecological and economic damage and can be a root of…

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