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What’s in the mud? Flood victims’ fears eased by early test results
An EPA worker collects samples from sediments left by the floods in Maribyrnong. Author provided Flooding stirs up river sediments,...
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California tree carnage: A decade of drought and fire killed a third of Sierra Nevada forests
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Admirers of California's Sierra Nevada mountains are familiar with the swaths of blackened trees flanking its...
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Coffin? Casket? Cremation? How to make your death more environmentally friendly
We conducted research on bodies exhumed from the La Villetta cemetery in Parma, Italy. Credit: Edda Guareschi, Author provided We...
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Current climate pledges have us heading for a world that is 2.4 to 2.6°C hotter
Credit: CC0 Public Domain As intensifying climate impacts across the globe hammer home the message that greenhouse gas emissions must...
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Passenger car preheating produces as much particulate emissions as driving dozens of kilometers
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A new study from Finland, conducted by the University of Eastern Finland and Tampere University, measured...
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Study finds that forest protection is key for reliable rainfall
Air circulation between (a) the ocean and a hot and dry land and (b) the ocean and a cool and...
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A close look at melting below Antarctica’s largest ice shelf
Map of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf using the polar stereographic projection (PS71), inset shows study area location in Antarctica. The...
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Study tracks the impacts of western wildfires on New York air quality
Hazy conditions seen at the NYS Mesonet site in Queens, July, 20 2021. Credit: University at Albany A new study...
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Some of the most drastic risks from climate change are routinely excluded from economic models, says study
Hazards shifting outside of their historical range. a, Hazards that most exceed the distribution from recent (1980–2009) history, measured with...
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Heat waves driven by climate change have cost global economy trillions since the 1990s
This plot shows the relationship between each country's average income and the effect that human-caused heat waves have had on...
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