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Unexpected Climate Feedback Links Antarctic Ice Sheet With Reduced Carbon Uptake

New study reveals surprising link between West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) retreat and algae growth over the past 500,000 years.

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Cutting Edge New Testing Capabilities Support the UK’s Marine Autonomy Ambitions

The University of Plymouth is part of a consortium that has launched the first stage of a dedicated maritime autonomy sensor and weather test range in Plymouth Sound.

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Project Investigates Public Attitudes and Perceptions Towards the Decommissioning of Marine Artificial Structures

A growing proportion of the UK’s energy infrastructure is located at sea, in the form of oil and gas platforms and offshore wind farms along with the connecting cables and pipelines.

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Light Changes a Magnet’s Polarity

In a ferromagnet, combined forces are at work. In order for a compass needle to point north or a fridge magnet to stick to the fridge door, countless electron spins inside them, each of which only creates a tiny magnetic field, all need to line up in the same direction.

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Greenland Ice Cap Vanished Just 7,000 Years Ago

The first study from GreenDrill—an ambitious project to recover rock samples buried thousands of feet beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet—finds that Greenland’s Prudhoe Dome ice cap had fully melted around 7,000 years ago, much more recently than previously thought.

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Turning Industrial Exhaust Into Useful Materials With a New Electrode

Flue gas is exhausted from home furnaces, fireplaces and even industrial plants, and it carries polluting carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere.

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Fossilised Plankton Study Gives Long-Term Hope for Oxygen Depleted Oceans

A new study suggests the world’s oxygen depleted seas may have a chance of returning to higher oxygen concentrations in the centuries to come, despite our increasingly warming climate.

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Computer Models Let Scientists Peer Into the Mystery Beneath Jupiter’s Clouds

Atmospheric study finds surprises about our largest neighboring planet and its deep atmosphere.

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Wetlands do not Need to be Flooded to Provide the Greatest Climate Benefit

Wetlands make up only about six percent of the land area but contain about 30 percent of the terrestrial organic carbon pool.

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The pine Beetles are Back. Here's Why and What You Can do About it

Colorado’s warm and dry winters have tipped the balance in a long-running ecological tug-of-war.

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