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Increasing synchronicity of global extreme fire weather Increasing synchronicity of global extreme fire weather constrains fire suppression coordination and exacerbates air pollution.

Increasing synchronicity of global extreme fire weather

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China is becoming a green superpower as Trump retreats from climate goals - BBC News How the world's biggest carbon emitter is now at the helm of a renewables revolution.

As USA retreats from climate goals, China is becoming a green superpower

How the world's biggest carbon emitter is now at the helm of a renewables revolution.

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US EPA plans to loosen mercury rules for coal plants this week, NYT reports The Trump administration plans to loosen restrictions on coal-burning power plants this week, allowing them to emit more hazardous pollutants including mercury, the New York Times reported on Wednesda...

US EPA plans to loosen mercury rules for coal plants this week

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Alaska’s Forests Are Creeping Towards the North. And the Implications Are Paradoxical From the southernmost edge of the belt in Alaska, the forests are quietly creeping towards the Arctic soils.

Alaska’s Forests Are Creeping Towards the North. And the Implications Are Paradoxical

From the southernmost edge of the belt in Alaska, the forests are quietly creeping towards the Arctic soils.

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How EPA 'endangerment finding' repeal could impact your wallet The Trump administration dismantled a key defense in the U.S. fight against climate change. Experts say that may have far-reaching impacts on people's finances.

How EPA ‘endangerment finding’ repeal could impact your wallet

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Sex Ratio Bias Triggers Demographic Suicide in a Dense Tortoise Population In theory, biased sex ratios combined with high population densities in coercive mating systems could trigger an extinction vortex, regardless of external factors such as predation or habitat loss. H...

Sex Ratio Bias Triggers Demographic Suicide in a Dense Tortoise Population

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Deer impact seedbanks and plant communities over 18 years of post-agricultural succession White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) are known to alter the composition of plant communities and the course of secondary succession. We present 18 years of data from a long-term deer exclosure e...

Deer impact seedbanks and plant communities over 18 years of post-agricultural succession

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Rising ground in Antarctic lifts melting ice sheets, limiting sea level rise Models might not be taking into account an important phenomenon that helps to mitigate ice sheet melt and, as a result, sea level rise. Image credit: Shutterstock/Goldilock Project

Rising ground in Antarctic lifts melting ice sheets, limiting sea level rise

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China Planted So Many Trees Around the Taklamakan Desert It Turned It Into a Carbon Sink Tree planting is often "green washing." Not in this case.

China Planted So Many Trees Around the Taklamakan Desert It Turned It Into a Carbon Sink

Tree planting is often "green washing." Not in this case.

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Meet the Inuit scientist kayaking around Greenland to highlight just how far microplastics travel

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EPA sidesteps science in repeal of U.S. greenhouse gas rules Agency’s attempt to overturn 2009 “endangerment finding” appears headed for Supreme Court

EPA sidesteps science in repeal of U.S. greenhouse gas rules

Agency’s attempt to overturn 2009 “endangerment finding” appears headed for Supreme Court #Science

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Electricity Prices Down 30% in Australia Expose Idiocy of Trump's Attacks on Wind, Solar | Common Dreams Despite its small population of about 2 million, the state of South Australia is widely seen as a demonstration project for what the renewables revolution can mean for the lives of people in the indus...

Electricity Prices Down 30% in Australia Expose Idiocy of Attacks on Wind, Solar

South Australia is widely seen as a demonstration project for what the renewables revolution can mean for the lives of people in the industrialized democracies.

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Reduced Vegetation Uptake During the Extreme 2023 Drought Turns the Amazon Into a Weak Carbon Source Drought turned the biogeographic Amazon in 2023 to a weak carbon source, with a magnitude similar to the drought of 2015 but less than 2016 Seasonal development of net carbon exchange in 2023 was...

Reduced Vegetation Uptake During the Extreme 2023 Drought Turns the Amazon Into a Weak Carbon Source

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Farming Without a Farm Bill Farm Bills run in five-year increments, but it’s been almost five years since we had one in place. Will we ever have one again — and why does it matter?

Farming Without a Farm Bill

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The Guardian view on Donald Trump and the climate crisis: the US is in reverse while China ploughs ahead | Editorial Editorial: The president’s destructive policies enrich fossil fuel billionaires, while Beijing has bet big on the green transition

The Guardian view on the climate crisis: the US is in reverse while China ploughs ahead

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Climate policy support linked to emotions - study

New ARU research finds ‘fear’ predicts increased support, but ‘dread’ sees it fall

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The expanding Indo-Pacific freshwater pool and changing freshwater pathway in the South Indian Ocean - Nature Climate Change Ocean salinity could change as the climate warms. Here the authors show that the South Indian Ocean has freshened most of the Southern Hemisphere oceans and highlight the mechanisms behind this freshe...

The expanding Indo-Pacific freshwater pool and changing freshwater pathway in the South Indian Ocean

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‘Almost impossible to destroy’: material captures CO2 and frees it at the flick of a photoswitch New class of porous materials can trap gases and release them on command

‘Almost impossible to destroy’: material captures CO2 and frees it at the flick of a photoswitch

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The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead) | TechCrunch Students are losing some interest in computer science broadly but gaining interest in AI-specific majors and courses.

The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead)

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Extraordinarily long duration of Eocene geomagnetic polarity reversals

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Observed shifts in regional climate linked to Amazon deforestation - Communications Earth & Environment Historic deforestation in the Amazon has contributed to climate shifts towards higher land surface temperatures, lower evapotranspiration, reduced dry season rainfall, and fewer rainy days, ...

Observed shifts in regional climate linked to Amazon deforestation

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Enforcement of laws against polluters nearly non-existent in US, analysis finds EPA’s records show one environmental consent decree filed in last year – 26 were filed in year one of first Trump term

Enforcement of laws against polluters nearly non-existent in US, analysis finds

EPA’s records show one environmental consent decree filed in last year – 26 were filed in year one of first Trump term

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Associations of heat exposure with mental health and suicide in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis Limited evidence exists on the association between high temperature and mental health in younger age group. We conducted a systematic search on PubMed, Web of Science, CINAHL Plus and PsycInfo and reviewed studies that explore the associations of ...

Associations of heat exposure with mental health and suicide in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis #ClimateAction

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These charts show how Trump is isolating the US on the world stage Analysis shows that the world is moving closer to China, as Trump’s isolationism rears its head at the United Nations

These charts show how the Administration is isolating the US on the world stage

Analysis shows that the world is moving closer to China, as Trump’s isolationism rears its head at the United Nations

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In Gift to Big Oil Donors, Trump Stops EPA From Combating 'Most Terrible Environmental Threat in Human History' | Common Dreams ​"If left to stand, this action will hamstring the government’s ability to combat the most terrible environmental threat in human history," said the director of Public Citizen's climate program.

In Gift to Big Oil Donors, Trump Stops EPA From Combating ‘Most Terrible Environmental Threat in Human History’

Repealing the EPA’s endangerment finding “isn’t about saving taxpayers’ money, it’s about saving an industry

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Scientific studies calculate climate change as health danger, while Trump calls it a 'scam' The Trump administration has revoked a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health, an idea that President Donald Trump called “a scam.”

Scientific studies calculate climate change as health danger, while the Administration calls it a ‘scam’

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Lifetime Lead Exposure Triples Alzheimer’s Risk - Neuroscience News New research shows that lead stored in your bones for decades could triple your risk of Alzheimer’s disease.

Lifetime Lead Exposure Triples Alzheimer’s Risk

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Trump terminates Obama-era findings that tied greenhouse gases to climate change The move eviscerates the government’s ability to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases

Administration terminates Obama-era findings that tied greenhouse gases to climate change

The move eviscerates the government’s ability to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases

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How much less is ‘less than lethal?’ Still dangerous, UMN researchers say “Think about eating the hottest pepper you can imagine, but then you’re feeling that in your lungs, in your stomach,” Dr. Jennifer Brown, an attorney and doctor in neuroscience, said,...

How much less is ‘less than lethal?’ Still dangerous, UMN researchers say

The answer to what health effects are caused by riot control agents lies in what we don’t know.

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Trump orders the military to make agreements with coal power plants The administration's "reasoning" for doing so has little connection to reality.

The administration orders the military to make agreements with coal power plants

The administration’s “reasoning” for doing so has little connection to reality.

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