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A Blast of Heat in the East

An area of high pressure lingered in the upper atmosphere over the U.S. Midwest and Northeast in June 2024. 

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Future Urban Climates

Climate change has already begun to transform planet Earth, and over the next few decades these dramatic transformations are expected to accelerate in an ongoing response to greenhouse gas emissions.

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Walking to Combat Back Pain: World-First Study Shows Dramatic Improvement

Adults with a history of low back pain lasted nearly twice as long without a recurrence if they walked regularly, a world-first study has found.

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Space Instruments Provide Early Warnings for Solar Flares

When a solar flare leaps out from around the sun, a small fleet of scientific instruments designed and built at the University of Colorado Boulder form a first line of defense—spotting these massive eruptions before any other instrument in space, then relaying the information to Earth in seconds.

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Non-Native Plants and Animals Expanding Ranges 100 Times Faster than Native Species, Finds New Research Led by UMass Amherst

An international team of scientists has recently found that non-native species are expanding their ranges many orders of magnitude faster than native ones, in large part due to inadvertent human help.

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A Better Model for Converting Carbon Dioxide into Fuels and Products

Some parts of the world have been so successful in making inexpensive renewable electricity that we occasionally have too much of it.

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Researchers Invent One Hundred Percent Biodegradable "Barley Plastic"

Enormous islands of it float in our oceans and microscopic particles of it are in our bodies.

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NASA Satellites Find Snow Didn’t Offset Southwest US Groundwater Loss

Record snowfall in recent years has not been enough to offset long-term drying conditions and increasing groundwater demands in the U.S. Southwest, according to a new analysis of NASA satellite data.

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Could the Global Boom in Greenhouses Help Cool the Planet?

The world is awash with greenhouses growing fresh vegetables year-round for health-conscious urbanites.

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Climate Models Underestimate Carbon Cycling Through Plants

The findings have implications for our understanding of the role of nature in mitigating climate change, including the potential for nature-based carbon removal projects such as mass tree-planting.

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