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How noise pollution impacts marine ecology
Posted: December 13, 2016Marine ecologists have shown how noise pollution is changing the behaviour of marine animals – and how its elimination will significantly help build their resilience. Laura Briggs reports.Building up a…
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Surge in methane emissions threatens efforts to slow climate change
Posted: December 13, 2016Global concentrations of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas and cause of climate change, are now growing faster in the atmosphere than at any other time in the past two decades.That…
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Flame Retardant Pollution in Great Lakes Is a Serious Matter, Commission Says
Posted: December 12, 2016The International Joint Commission has developed a strategy for how U.S. and Canadian governments can address this toxic problem.
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Wind turbines may have beneficial effects for crops
Posted: December 9, 2016A multi-year study led by an Iowa State University scientist suggests the turbines commonly used in the state to capture wind energy may have a positive effect on crops.Gene Takle,…
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Against the Tide: A Fish Adapts Quickly to Lethal Levels of Pollution
Posted: December 9, 2016Evolution is working hard to rescue some urban fish from a lethal, human-altered environment, according to a study led by the University of California, Davis, and published Dec. 9 in the…
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How Tracking Product Sources May Help Save World's Forests
Posted: December 8, 2016Global businesses are increasingly pledging to obtain key commodities only from sources that do not contribute to deforestation. Now, nonprofit groups are deploying data tools that help hold these companies…
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NASA Sees Tropical Cyclone 05B Form
Posted: December 8, 2016An area of tropical low pressure designated System 99B has consolidated and developed into Tropical Cyclone 05B. On Dec. 7 the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instrument aboard the NASA-NOAA…
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East Greenland ice sheet has responded to climate change for the last 7.5 million years
Posted: December 8, 2016Using marine sediment cores containing isotopes of aluminum and beryllium, a group of international researchers has discovered that East Greenland experienced deep, ongoing glacial erosion over the past 7.5 million…
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2017 Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal Winner: Ing. César A. Portocarrero Rodríguez
Posted: December 7, 2016Nepalese NGO Mountain Legacy has just announced that Peruvian engineer César Augusto Portocarrero Rodríguez will receive the Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal in a public ceremony at Hotel Tibet…
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Sea ice hit record lows in November
Posted: December 7, 2016Unusually high air temperatures and a warm ocean have led to a record low Arctic sea ice extent for November, according to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data…
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