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Antarctic seals reveal worrying threats to disappearing glaciers
More Antarctic meltwater is surfacing than was previously known, modifying the climate, preventing sea ice from forming and boosting marine…
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How are universities planning to tackle emissions associated with food and flying?
New research from The University of Manchester has identified various ways in which UK higher education institutions are beginning to…
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Short-term climate modeling forecasts drought for Southeast US
IMAGE: Drought forecasting, which is typically performed at the multi-decade scale, is getting a proactive makeover by Illinois researchers who are…
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Gulf Stream System at its weakest in over a millennium
Never before in over 1000 years the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), also known as Gulf Stream System, has been…
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Future ocean warming boosts tropical rainfall extremes
IMAGE: (Left) Predicted change of ocean surface temperature in 2050-2099 relative to 1950-1999 using an ensemble of climate models. (Right) Predicted…
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New study on the forecasting of extreme rainfall events in Mediterranean countries
IMAGE: (a) Orography of studied area, (b) Intensity of extreme daily precipitation across the domain. view more Credit: Mastrantonas et al,…
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CO2 dip may have helped dinosaurs walk from South America to Greenland
IMAGE: A cliff in Jameson Land Basin in central East Greenland, the northernmost site where sauropodomorph fossils are found. The labels…
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Higher elevation birds sport thicker down
IMAGE: Sahas Barve, a Peter Buck Fellow at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, led a new study to examine…
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Here comes the new generation of climate models: the future of rainfall in the Alps
Less intense mean daily precipitation, more intense and localised extreme events. This is what the future climate scenarios indicate for…
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More trees do not always create a cooler planet, Clark University geographer finds
IMAGE: Clark University logo view more Credit: n/a WORCESTER, Mass. — New research by Christopher A. Williams, an environmental scientist and…
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