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COP21 enters critical phase today
Posted: December 7, 2015Government ministers arrive in Paris today as climate talks enter their second week. The ministers add high-level influence to the climate negotiations and can help unlock critical elements of a new climate deal.“It’s…
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From Toilet to Tap
Posted: December 7, 2015The rainfall and snowpack so far this autumn have been encouraging, but the stubborn reality is that California is still mired in drought. While farmers from Bakersfield to Fresno to Redding…
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Are you smarter than a fruit fly?
Posted: December 5, 2015Northwestern University neuroscientists now can read the mind of a fly. They have developed a clever new tool that lights up active conversations between neurons during a behavior or sensory…
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NASA captures image of faintest galaxy ever seen
Posted: December 4, 2015Astronomers harnessing the combined power of NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have found the faintest object ever seen in the early universe. It existed about 400 million years after…
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Global food system faces threats from climate change
Posted: December 4, 2015Climate change is likely to have far-reaching impacts on food security throughout the world, especially for the poor and those living in tropical regions, according to a new international report…
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If you're a young adult, curb your TV time!
Posted: December 3, 2015Watching a lot of TV and having a low physical activity level as a young adult were associated with worse cognitive function 25 years later in midlife, according to an…
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Fires rage in Amazon Rainforest
Posted: December 3, 2015It's not just Indonesia's forests and peatlands that are burning – the Amazon is suffering almost as badly, with over 18,000 fires last month in Brazil alone, write Jos Barlow…
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European climate maybe heading for a cool down
Posted: December 2, 2015What is the climate waiting for Russia and Europe in 15-20 years? Will be there weather abnormalities in the coming decades? Will some areas experience more severe winter, while the…
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Should we say goodbye to cacti?
Posted: December 2, 2015It’s hard not to think of a cactus as a resilient plant. Living in hot, drought-stricken climates, if it can survive there, surely it can make it through anything. Sadly,…
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Large Loss of Alaska Permafrost by 2100 predicted by USGS
Posted: December 1, 2015Using statistically modeled maps drawn from satellite data and other sources, U.S. Geological Survey scientists have projected that the near-surface permafrost that presently underlies 38 percent of boreal and arctic…
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