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Abrupt global warming could shift monsoon patterns, hurt agriculture

If similar changes were to happen to the Earth's climate today as a result of global warming – as scientists believe is possible – this might lead to drier…

Surprise: Typhoons trigger slow earthquakes

Slow earthquakes are non-violent fault slippage events that take hours or days instead of a few brutal seconds to minutes to release their potent energy. The…

Hatchery fish may hurt efforts to sustain wild salmon runs

The poor reproductive fitness – the ability to survive and reproduce – of the wild-born offspring of hatchery fish means that adding hatchery fish to wild…

New cleaning protocol for future 'search for life' missions

The new protocol was developed as part of a project to investigate life that exists in extreme Arctic environments, which are the closest analogue we have on…

Illegal fishing harming present and future New England groundfish fisheries

Among their findings, environmental economists Dr. Dennis King of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Dr. Jon Sutinen of the…

New proxy reveals how humans have disrupted the nitrogen cycle

The chief culprit is fossil fuel combustion, which releases nitric oxides into the air that combine with other elements to form smog and acid rain. But it has…

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