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1### [Misconceptions About Weather and Seasonality Impact COVID-19 Response](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200827101814.htm)
1### [Are China's Pollution Remediation Efforts Making the Planet Warmer?](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200929123715.htm)
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3Aug. 27, 2020 - Misconceptions about the way climate and weather impact exposure and transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, create false confidence and have adversely shaped risk perceptions, ...
3Sep. 29, 2020 - A 10-year effort by China to improve air quality and reduce pollution-related health risks has caused warming in areas across the northern hemisphere, according to new ...
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7### [Researchers Introduce New Theory to Calculate Emissions Liability](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200825124624.htm)
7### [The Arctic Is Burning in a Whole New Way](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200928155746.htm)
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9Aug. 25, 2020 - A new study questions conventional methods of calculating carbon emissions liability based on point source pollution by introducing new 'bottleneck' ...
9Sep. 28, 2020 - 'Zombie fires' and burning of fire-resistant vegetation are new features driving Arctic fires -- with strong consequences for the global climate -- warn international fire ...
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13### [Climate Change and Land Use Are Accelerating Soil Erosion by Water](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200824165633.htm)
13### [Despite High Hopes, Carbon Absorbed by Amazon Forest Recovery Is Dwarfed by Deforestation Emissions](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200928152848.htm)
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15Aug. 24, 2020 - Soil loss due to water runoff could increase greatly around the world over the next 50 years due to climate change and intensive land ...
15Sep. 28, 2020 - After calculating how much carbon had been lost through deforestation, scientists have discovered that, in more than 30 years, the regrowth of secondary forests in the Brazilian Amazon has offset ...
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19### [Negative Emissions Technologies May Not Solve Climate Crisis](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200824120035.htm)
19### [Reusing Tableware Can Reduce Waste from Online Food Deliveries](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200925113334.htm)
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21Aug. 24, 2020 - Researchers used the Global Change Assessment Model to compare the effects of three negative emissions technologies on global food supply, water use and energy demand. The work looked at the role ...
21Sep. 25, 2020 - In China, approximately 10 billion online food orders were served to over 400 million customers in 2018. All of these orders came in single-use plastic packaging, with single-use plastic tableware. ...
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25### [Global Forest Restoration and the Importance of Empowering Local Communities](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200824110114.htm)
25### [Camera Traps Show Impact of Recreational Activity on Wildlife](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200924101932.htm)
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27Aug. 24, 2020 - Forest restoration is a crucial element in strategies to mitigate climate change and conserve global biodiversity in the coming decades, and much of the focus is on formerly tree-covered lands in the ...
27Sep. 24, 2020 - The COVID-19 pandemic has fired up interest in outdoor activities in our parks and forests. Now a new study highlights the need to be mindful of how these activities may affect wildlife living in ...
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31### [Big Mammals at Higher Risk of Extinction in World's Poorest Countries](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200824105611.htm)
31### [Climate Pledges 'Like Tackling COVID-19 Without Social Distancing'](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200924082709.htm)
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33Aug. 24, 2020 - A review, which looks at 81 studies carried out between 1980 and 2020, has found that illegal hunting is causing worrying declines in the big mammal populations of protected areas across the globe, ...
33Sep. 24, 2020 - Current global pledges to tackle climate change are the equivalent of declaring a pandemic without a plan for social distancing, researchers ...
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37### [Australia's Wish List of Exotic Pets](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200820102432.htm)
37### [Urgent Conservation Needed for World's Carnivorous Plants](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200924101942.htm)
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39Aug. 20, 2020 - Unsustainable trade of species is the major pathway for the introduction of invasive alien species at distant localities at higher frequencies. It is also a major driver of over-exploitation of wild ...
39Sep. 24, 2020 - New research has found approximately a quarter of carnivorous plant species across the world may be at risk of extinction due to global climate change, illegal poaching, and the clearing of land for ...
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43### [If Sustainably Managed, Wild Fisheries and Mariculture Could Help Meet Rising Demand for Food](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200819120704.htm)
43### [Amazonia Racing Toward Tipping Point, Fueled by Unregulated Fires](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200923164614.htm)
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45Aug. 19, 2020 - Demand for food is set to rise substantially in the coming decades, which raises a question: How well can the ocean fill the gap between current supply and future ...
45Sep. 23, 2020 - Amazonia is closer to a catastrophic ecological tipping point than any time in the last 100,000 years, and human activity is the ...
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49### [Heating Our Climate Damages Our Economies: Study Reveals Greater Costs Than Expected](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200819102815.htm)
49### [Better Conservation Planning Can Improve Human Life Too](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200922112310.htm)
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51Aug. 19, 2020 - Rising temperatures due to our greenhouse gas emissions can cause greater damages to our economies than previous research suggested, a new study ...
51Sep. 22, 2020 - Conservation planning can be greatly improved to benefit human communities, while still protecting biodiversity, according to new ...
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55### [Surprising Coral Spawning Features Revealed](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200818142145.htm)
55### [Warming Ocean, Old-Forest Loss Put a Squeeze on an Elusive Seabird](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200922092154.htm)
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57Aug. 18, 2020 - When stony corals have their renowned mass spawning events, in sync with the moon's cycle, colonies simultaneously release an underwater 'cloud' of sperm and eggs for fertilization. ...
57Sep. 22, 2020 - Squeezed by changing ocean conditions that limit their food options and the long-term loss of old forest needed for nesting, marbled murrelets would benefit most from conservation efforts that take ...
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61### [Primate Habitat Endangered by Climate Change Mapped Around the Globe](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200818142111.htm)
61### [40% of O'ahu, Hawai'i Beaches Could Be Lost by Mid-Century](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200921170507.htm)
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63Aug. 18, 2020 - Researchers have projected the effects current and estimated future global temperature increases would have on the precise territories that were home to particular primate species, based on projected ...
63Sep. 21, 2020 - The reactive and piecemeal approach historically used to manage beaches in Hawai'i has failed to protect them. If policies are not changed, as much as 40% of all beaches on O'ahu, ...
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67### [Widespread Electric Vehicle Adoption Would Save Billions of Dollars, Thousands of Lives](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200817123107.htm)
67### [Climate: Support for Simple Funding Plans -- Even If Costs Are High](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200921151332.htm)
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69Aug. 17, 2020 - A new study found that if EVs replaced 25% of combustion-engine cars currently on the road, the United States would save approximately $17 billion annually by avoiding damages from climate change and ...
69Sep. 21, 2020 - There is growing demand for countries to take aggressive action to combat climate change, but less consensus on how to fund it. In a new study, researchers asked more than 10,000 people from the US, ...
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73### [New Model for Pricing Carbon Will Help Meet Net-Zero Climate Change Goals](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200817123101.htm)
73### [Researcher Analyzes the Use of Solar Energy at US Airports](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200921115552.htm)
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75Aug. 17, 2020 - In a new article, researchers introduce a new approach for pricing carbon: Near-term to Net ...
75Sep. 21, 2020 - By studying 488 public airports in the United States, researchers found that 20% of them have adopted solar photovoltaic (PV), commonly known as solar panels, over the last ...
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79### [New Research Reveals Effect of Global Warming on Greenland Ice Melt](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200817123045.htm)
79### [Corona-Induced CO2 Emission Reductions Are Not Yet Detectable in the Atmosphere](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200921102540.htm)
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81Aug. 17, 2020 - New analysis of almost 30 years' worth of scientific data on the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet predicts global sea level rise of at least 10 centimeters by the end of the 21st Century if ...
81Sep. 21, 2020 - The impact of the corona pandemic will reduce worldwide carbon dioxide emissions by up to eight percent in 2020. Cumulative reductions of about this magnitude would be required every year to reach ...
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85### [Long-Term Exposure to Traffic Noise May Impact Weight Gain in the UK Population](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200817123030.htm)
85### [Machine Learning Models Identify Kids at Risk of Lead Poisoning](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200916113523.htm)
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87Aug. 17, 2020 - A new study has found a connection between traffic noise and obesity. Long-term exposure to road traffic noise, such as living near a motorway or on a busy road, was associated with an increase in ...
87Sep. 21, 2020 - Machine learning can help public health officials identify children most at risk of lead poisoning, enabling them to concentrate their limited resources on preventing poisonings rather than ...
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91### [A Watershed Moment for US Water Quality](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200813142337.htm)
91### [Ecologists Sound Alarm on Plastic Pollution](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200917181303.htm)
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93Aug. 13, 2020 - A new federal rule that determines how the Clean Water Act is implemented leaves millions of miles of streams and acres of wetlands unprotected based on selective interpretation of case law and a ...
93Sep. 17, 2020 - Ecologists examining plastic pollution entering oceans, rivers and lakes around the world annually, outline potential impacts of various mitigation strategies over the coming decade. The researchers ...
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97### [Countries Transitioning to Zero Carbon Should Look at More Than Technology Cost](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200812115300.htm)
97### [Curbing Land Clearing for Food Production Is Vital to Reverse Biodiversity Declines](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200917135517.htm)
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99Aug. 12, 2020 - A 'one-size-fits-all' approach to producing cleaner energy based on cost alone could create social inequalities, finds a new ...
99Sep. 17, 2020 - Preserving terrestrial biodiversity requires more ambitious land-conservation targets to be established and met. At the same time, 'bending the curve' on biodiversity loss needs more ...
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103### [Collaboration Is Key to Rebuilding Coral Reefs](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200812115321.htm)
103### [Emissions Could Add 15 Inches to 2100 Sea Level Rise](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200917122844.htm)
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105Aug. 12, 2020 - The most successful and cost-effective ways to restore coral reefs have been identified by an international group of scientists, after analyzing restoration projects in Latin ...
105Sep. 17, 2020 - An international effort that brought together more than 60 ice, ocean and atmosphere scientists from three dozen international institutions has generated new estimates of how much of an impact ...
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109### [Analysis Pinpoints Most Important Forests for Biodiversity and Conservation in Central Africa](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200811153923.htm)
109### [New Estimates for the Rise in Sea Levels Due to Ice Sheet Mass Loss Under Climate Change](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200917105339.htm)
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111Aug. 11, 2020 - A new study produced new analyses to pinpoint the most important forests for biodiversity conservation remaining in Central ...
111Sep. 17, 2020 - An international consortium of researchers under the aegis of CMIP6 has calculated new estimates for the melting of Earth's ice sheets due to greenhouse gas emissions and its impact on sea ...
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115### [Study Predicts Millions of Unsellable Homes Could Upend Market](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200811153909.htm)
115### [Climate Change Threatens Komodo Dragons](https://sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200917105400.htm)
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117Aug. 11, 2020 - Millions of American homes could become unsellable - or could be sold at significant losses to their senior-citizen owners - between now and 2040, according to new ...
117Sep. 17, 2020 - The world's largest lizard, the Komodo dragon, could be driven to extinction by climate change unless significant measures to intervene are taken ...
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