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Ice Shelves Fracture Under Weight of Meltwater Lakes

When air temperatures in Antarctica rise and glacier ice melts, water can pool on the surface of floating ice shelves, weighing them down and causing the ice to bend.

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Webb Telescope Probably Didn’t Find Life on an Exoplanet — Yet

Recent reports of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope finding signs of life on a distant planet understandably sparked excitement. 

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Lake Tsunamis Pose Significant Threat Under Warming Climate

The names might not be familiar—Cowee Creek, Brabazon Range, Upper Pederson Lagoon—but they mark the sites of recent lake tsunamis, a phenomenon that is increasingly common in Alaska, British Columbia and other regions with mountain glaciers.

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Oil Palm Plantations Are Driving Massive Downstream Impact to Watershed

Researchers at UMass Amherst find Indigenous populations bear the environmental and public health costs when native Indonesian forests are converted to oil palm plantations.

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Climate Change Intensifies Wind-Rain Extremes in the UK and Ireland

Climate change will cause an increase in extreme winter storms combining strong winds and heavy rainfall over the UK and Ireland, new research has shown.

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Wildfires in Wet African Forests Have Doubled in Recent Decades

Climate change and human activities like deforestation are causing more fires in central and west africa’s wet, tropical forests, according to the first-ever comprehensive survey there. The fires have Longbeen overlooked.

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NREL Invites Robots To Help Make Wind Turbine Blades

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have successfully leveraged robotic assistance in the manufacture of wind turbine blades, allowing for the elimination of difficult working conditions for humans and the potential to improve the consistency of the product.

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Stretchable E-Skin Could Give Robots Human-Level Touch Sensitivity

A first-ever stretchy electronic skin could equip robots and other devices with the same softness and touch sensitivity as human skin, opening up new possibilities to perform tasks that require a great deal of precision and control of force.

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Every Breath You Take: The Journey of Inhaled Plastic Particles

With recent studies having established the presence of nano and microplastic particles in the respiratory systems of both human and bird populations, a new University of Technology Sydney (UTS) study has modelled what happens when people breathe in different kinds of plastic particles and where they end up.

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Improved AI Process Could Better Predict Water Supplies

A new computer model uses a better artificial intelligence process to measure snow and water availability more accurately across vast distances in the West, information that could someday be used to better predict water availability for farmers and others.

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