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Predicting the Weather: New Meteorology Estimation Method Aids Building Efficiency

Due to the growing reality of global warming and climate change, there is increasing uncertainty around meteorological conditions used in energy assessments of buildings. 

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Under-Ice Species at Risk as Arctic Warms

“Specialist” lifeforms that live under Arctic sea ice are at risk as the ice retreats, new research shows.

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Oil Spill Still Contaminating Sensitive Mauritius Mangroves Three Years On

Three years after bulk carrier MV Wakashio ran aground on a coral reef off Mauritius, spilling 1000 tonnes of a new type of marine fuel oil, Curtin University-led research has confirmed the oil is still present in an environmentally sensitive mangrove forest close to important Ramsar conservation sites.

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Decarbonizing Heavy Industry with Thermal Batteries

Whether you’re manufacturing cement, steel, chemicals, or paper, you need a large amount of heat.

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The Milky Way Represents an Outlier Among Similar Galaxies, Universe Survey Data Shows

The Milky Way galaxy has long been considered the ideal model for studying galactic evolution, but three new studies co-led by Stanford scientists reveal that the birth of our home galaxy may not be typical of how other galaxies evolved.

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Lava Nears Iceland’s Blue Lagoon

After more than two months of quiet, a volcanic fissure once again burst open on Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula on November 20, 2024.

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Better Education can Mitigate Post-Harvest Food Losses, Increase Global Food Security

Better educating farmers and food processors about how to avoid post-harvest food losses – which amount to one-third of global food production, worth US$1 trillion annually – would reduce global food insecurity, according to researchers at McGill University.

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King Salmon Declines Linked to Climate, Smaller Size

King salmon have sustained people in Alaska for at least 12,000 years, but over the past three decades their populations have begun to dwindle.

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UAF Enhances Seaglider Technology to Measure Carbon Dioxide

Scientists around the world rely on ocean monitoring tools to measure the effects of climate change.

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Unexplained Heat-Wave ‘Hotspots’ Are Popping Up Across the Globe

Earth’s hottest recorded year was 2023, at 2.12 degrees F above the 20th-century average. This surpassed the previous record set in 2016.

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