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Extreme Climate Pushed Thousands of Lakes in West Greenland ‘Across a Tipping Point,’ Study Finds

West Greenland is home to tens of thousands of blue lakes that provide residents drinking water and sequester carbon from the atmosphere. 

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UO’s Earthquake Scientists Help Prep for the Next ‘Big One’

It's been 325 years since the last huge Cascadia shock, and researchers are getting ready for another with an array of new tools.

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Meltwater Ponds on the Amery Ice Shelf

Toward the end of 2024, less than halfway through the melt season in Antarctica, the icy continent had already seen bouts of widespread melting along its coastal areas. 

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New Water Purification Technology Helps Turn Seawater into Drinking Water Without Tons of Chemicals

Water desalination plants could replace expensive chemicals with new carbon cloth electrodes that remove boron from seawater, an important step of turning seawater into safe drinking water.

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Smaller Fish Offer Better Nutrition, Lower Environmental Cost

Smaller fish species are more nutritious, lower in mercury and less susceptible to overfishing, a Cornell-led research team has found.

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As Oceans Warm, Predators Are Falling Out of Sync with Their Prey

For decades on the U.S. Mid-Atlantic coast, recreational anglers have braved the cold temperatures of late October and November to chase one of the region’s most iconic fish species, the striped bass.

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Air Pollution is Driving Health Inequalities in the South, Says New Report

A new report from Clean Air South says air pollution in the south of England could be further entrenching health inequalities, with those living in more deprived areas most affected.

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Coding for a Greener Internet

Karsten and his co-author, Computer Science grad student Peter Cai, realized that the way that data centres were processing network traffic was inefficient and devised a small change to make it far more efficient.

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Research on Past Hurricanes Aims to Reduce Future Risk

Tropical storms like hurricanes are not only terrifying, but also incredibly costly for coastal regions across the United States, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.

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The Megadroughts Are Upon Us

Forty-year study: Extreme droughts will become more frequent, severe, and extensive.

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