News: Earth & Climate — Environmental Policy
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| 1 | July 27, 2025 - For over two decades, satellites have quietly documented a major crisis unfolding beneath our feet: Earth's continents are drying out at unprecedented rates. Fueled by climate change, ... | |
| 1 | Aug. 21, 2025 - Industrial forests, packed with evenly spaced trees, face nearly 50% higher odds of megafires than public lands. A lidar-powered study of California's Sierra Nevada reveals how dense plantations ... | |
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| 5 | July 27, 2025 - Air pollution isn't just bad for your lungs-it may be eroding your brain. In a sweeping review covering nearly 30 million people, researchers found that common pollutants like PM2.5, nitrogen ... | |
| 5 | Aug. 16, 2025 - Mediterranean bryozoans, including the "false coral," are showing alarming changes in structure and microbiomes under acidification and warming. Field studies at volcanic CO₂ vents reveal that ... | |
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| 9 | July 21, 2025 - A scorching marine heatwave from 2014 to 2016 devastated the Pacific coast, shaking ecosystems from plankton to whales and triggering mass die-offs, migrations, and fishery collapses. Researchers ... | |
| 9 | Aug. 15, 2025 - In a Puerto Rican coffee farm, researchers uncovered a web of chaotic interactions between three ant species and a predator fly, revealing how shifting dominance patterns make pest management ... | |
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| 13 | July 21, 2025 - Gene editing may hold the key to rescuing endangered species-not just by preserving them, but by restoring their lost genetic diversity using DNA from museum specimens and related species. ... | |
| 13 | Aug. 2, 2025 - Between 2003 and 2021, Earth saw a net boost in photosynthesis, mainly thanks to land plants thriving in warming, wetter conditions-especially in temperate and high-latitude regions. Meanwhile, ... | |
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| 17 | July 17, 2025 - Dogs trained by everyday pet owners are proving to be surprisingly powerful allies in the fight against the invasive spotted lanternfly. In a groundbreaking study, citizen scientists taught their ... | |
| 17 | Aug. 4, 2025 - An intriguing new study reveals that over 80% of parasites found in the ancient poo of New Zealand's endangered kākāpō have vanished, even though the bird itself is still hanging on. Researchers ... | |
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| 21 | July 16, 2025 - Twenty-five years after first warning that oil spills would wane while invasive species and climate impacts would surge, an international team revisits its coastal forecasts and finds many ... | |
| 21 | July 29, 2025 - Researchers are exploring AI-powered digital twins as a game-changing tool to accelerate the clean energy transition. These digital models simulate and optimize real-world energy systems like wind, ... | |
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| 25 | July 7, 2025 - Feral honey bees, once celebrated for their agricultural value, are now threatening native ecosystems in Southern California by monopolizing pollen sources and overwhelming native pollinators. A new ... | |
| 25 | July 27, 2025 - For over two decades, satellites have quietly documented a major crisis unfolding beneath our feet: Earth's continents are drying out at unprecedented rates. Fueled by climate change, ... | |
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| 29 | July 3, 2025 - Tropical trees are dying faster than ever, and it's not just heat or drought to blame. Scientists have uncovered a surprising culprit: ordinary thunderstorms. These quick, fierce storms, powered ... | |
| 29 | July 27, 2025 - Air pollution isn't just bad for your lungs-it may be eroding your brain. In a sweeping review covering nearly 30 million people, researchers found that common pollutants like PM2.5, nitrogen ... | |
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| 33 | June 30, 2025 - Wildfires are becoming more intense and dangerous, but a new Stanford-led study offers hope: prescribed burns-intentionally set, controlled fires-can significantly lessen their impact. By ... | |
| 33 | Aug. 9, 2025 - Deep beneath the Antarctic seas lies a hidden network of 332 colossal submarine canyons, some plunging over 4,000 meters, revealed in unprecedented detail by new high-resolution mapping. These ... | |
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| 37 | June 26, 2025 - South Australia's tiny pygmy bluetongue skink is baking in a warming, drying homeland, so Flinders University scientists have tried a bold fix-move it. Three separate populations were shifted ... | |
| 37 | July 21, 2025 - A scorching marine heatwave from 2014 to 2016 devastated the Pacific coast, shaking ecosystems from plankton to whales and triggering mass die-offs, migrations, and fishery collapses. Researchers ... | |
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| 41 | June 20, 2025 - Arctic peatlands are expanding with rising temperatures, storing more carbon at least for now. But future warming could reverse this benefit, releasing massive ... | |
| 41 | July 21, 2025 - Gene editing may hold the key to rescuing endangered species-not just by preserving them, but by restoring their lost genetic diversity using DNA from museum specimens and related species. ... | |
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| 45 | June 19, 2025 - Every query typed into a large language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, requires energy and produces CO2 emissions. Emissions, however, depend on the model, the subject matter, and the user. ... | |
| 45 | July 17, 2025 - Dogs trained by everyday pet owners are proving to be surprisingly powerful allies in the fight against the invasive spotted lanternfly. In a groundbreaking study, citizen scientists taught their ... | |
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| 49 | June 27, 2025 - At current emission rates, we're just over three years away from blowing through the remaining carbon budget to limit warming to 1.5°C. This new international study paints a stark picture: the ... | |
| 49 | July 16, 2025 - Twenty-five years after first warning that oil spills would wane while invasive species and climate impacts would surge, an international team revisits its coastal forecasts and finds many ... | |
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| 53 | June 19, 2025 - AI researchers in Switzerland have found a way to dramatically cut cement s carbon footprint by redesigning its recipe. Their system simulates thousands of ingredient combinations, pinpointing those ... | |
| 53 | July 7, 2025 - Feral honey bees, once celebrated for their agricultural value, are now threatening native ecosystems in Southern California by monopolizing pollen sources and overwhelming native pollinators. A new ... | |
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| 57 | June 14, 2025 - A pioneering study reveals how archaeologists' satellite tools can be repurposed to tackle climate change. By using AI and satellite LiDAR imagery from NASA and ESA, researchers have found a ... | |
| 57 | July 3, 2025 - Tropical trees are dying faster than ever, and it's not just heat or drought to blame. Scientists have uncovered a surprising culprit: ordinary thunderstorms. These quick, fierce storms, powered ... | |
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| 61 | June 14, 2025 - A University of Queensland-led project has developed a tool to standardise genetic testing of koala populations, providing a significant boost to conservation and recovery ... | |
| 61 | June 30, 2025 - Wildfires are becoming more intense and dangerous, but a new Stanford-led study offers hope: prescribed burns-intentionally set, controlled fires-can significantly lessen their impact. By ... | |
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| 65 | June 13, 2025 - Despite falling global mercury emissions, mercury levels in Arctic wildlife continue to rise. A new study reveals that ocean currents are delivering legacy mercury pollution from distant regions like ... | |
| 65 | June 26, 2025 - South Australia's tiny pygmy bluetongue skink is baking in a warming, drying homeland, so Flinders University scientists have tried a bold fix-move it. Three separate populations were shifted ... | |
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| 69 | June 15, 2025 - Underground fungi may be one of Earth s most powerful and overlooked allies in the fight against climate change, yet most of them remain unknown to science. Known only by DNA, these "dark ... | |
| 69 | June 20, 2025 - Arctic peatlands are expanding with rising temperatures, storing more carbon at least for now. But future warming could reverse this benefit, releasing massive ... | |
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| 73 | June 17, 2025 - In a surprising twist during an air quality study in Oklahoma, researchers detected MCCPs an industrial pollutant never before measured in the Western Hemisphere's atmosphere. The team suspects ... | |
| 73 | June 19, 2025 - Every query typed into a large language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, requires energy and produces CO2 emissions. Emissions, however, depend on the model, the subject matter, and the user. ... | |
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| 77 | June 12, 2025 - Ancient carbon thought to be safely stored underground for millennia is unexpectedly resurfacing literally. A sweeping international study has found that over half of the carbon gases released by ... | |
| 77 | June 27, 2025 - At current emission rates, we're just over three years away from blowing through the remaining carbon budget to limit warming to 1.5°C. This new international study paints a stark picture: the ... | |
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