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Researchers Find Trees Could Spruce Up Future Water Conservation Efforts

Trees contain valuable information about Earth’s past, so much so that studying their rings may help fill in hidden gaps in Ohio’s environmental history.

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Residents in Hot, Humid Regions More Likely to Have Kidney Failure

Australians living in consistently hot and humid northern regions are at greater risk of kidney failure than their compatriots in more temperate and less remote locations, researchers have found.

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A Delicate Antarctic Balance Crucial to Global Climate

New findings about ocean processes in the Antarctic show melting ice shelves and changes to sea ice could have catastrophic implications for the global climate.

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Feedback Loops Accelerate Warming, Other Atmospheric Changes in Arctic

The climate is changing and nowhere is it changing faster than at Earth’s poles.

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A Wrinkle Beneath the Icy Face of Alaska

A few days ago, the forces beneath Alaska rattled people within a 500-mile radius: A magnitude 7 earthquake ripped under Hubbard Glacier.

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Saturn’s Biggest Moon Might Not Have a Global Ocean — but the Search for Life Isn’t Over

Careful reanalysis of data from more than a decade ago indicates that Saturn’s biggest moon, Titan, does not have a vast ocean beneath its icy surface, as suggested previously. 

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Turf Wars: Sharks Vs. Seabirds Cause Habitat Shifts

Seasonal seabird nesting in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands triggers shark turf wars and habitat shifts among different shark species, according to a new study led by scientists from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) Shark Lab. 

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Warmer Ocean Currents Destabilize Ice Sheets, Driving Retreat

NEGIS is the largest ice stream draining the Greenland Ice Sheet into the ocean.

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Temporary Carbon Removals Can Compensate Warming from Methane Emissions

Carbon removal projects could prove vital in offsetting methane emissions – the second largest contributor to global warming.

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Fiddler Crabs Found to Hoover Up and Break Down Microplastic Particles

New research has found that Fiddler crabs are playing an unheralded role when it comes to hoovering up microplastics found in the world’s mangrove forests and salt marshes.

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