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Climate change could alter ocean food chains

Climate change could alter ocean food chains, leading to far fewer fish in the sea Sustained ocean warming could greatly reduce catches of fish like...
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100 degrees in Siberia

5 ways the extreme Arctic heat wave follows a disturbing pattern Mark Serreze, University of Colorado Boulder The Arctic heat wave that sent Siberian temperatures soaring...

Having a Closer Look at Cancer Alley

Health Officials in “Cancer Alley” Will Study if Living Near a Controversial Chemical Plant Causes Cancer ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up...
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NASA Study Shows Human Activities Are Drying Out the Amazon

Re-Published from JPL.NASA.gov - 12/5/2019 A new NASA study shows that over the last 20 years, the atmosphere above the Amazon rainforest has been drying...
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Naturally occurring CO2 also a serious threat

Deep sea carbon reservoirs once superheated the Earth – could it happen again? Lowell D. Stott, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters,...
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Shrinking of Antarctic ice shelves is accelerating

Laurence Padman, Earth and Space Research; Fernando Paolo, University of California San Diego, and Helen Amanda Fricker, University of California San Diego Ask people what...
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Monarch butterflies at risk

Monarch butterflies' spectacular migration is at risk – an ambitious new plan aims to help save it D. André Green II, University of Michigan One of...

Monkey Fossils Point to a Warmer Ancient World

Monkey fossils found in Serbia offer clues about life in a warmer world millions of years ago Joshua Allan Lindal, University of Manitoba Sparse trees cast...
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Microplastics a growing threat to sea turtles

Newly hatched Florida sea turtles are consuming dangerous quantities of floating plastic David Duffy, University of Florida and Catherine Eastman, University of Florida Plastic pollution has...

Assyrian Empire a Victim of Climate Change

Climate change fueled the rise and demise of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, superpower of the ancient world Ashish Sinha, California State University, Dominguez Hills and Gayatri...

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