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Humans Bite Back by Deactivating Mosquito Sperm

New UC Riverside research makes it likely that proteins responsible for activating mosquito sperm can be shut down, preventing them from swimming to or fertilizing eggs. 

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UAF Scientist Offers Evidence That Venus Is Volcanically Active

Venus appears to have volcanic activity, according to a new research paper that offers strong evidence to answer the lingering question about whether Earth’s sister planet currently has eruptions and lava flows.

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HKU Marine Scientist Contributes to Research Assessing the Potential Risks of Ocean-Based Climate Intervention Technologies on Deep-Sea Ecosystems

The deep sea is one of the least well-known areas on Earth, comprising multiple vulnerable ecosystems that play critical roles in the carbon cycle. 

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East Coast Landslide Impacts From Puerto Rico to Vermont and in Between

In the U.S., we may often think of landslides as primarily a West Coast problem, mostly plaguing the mountainous terrain of California, Oregon, and Washington. 

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UT Austin Leads Review of World Water Resources

A recent review study led by The University of Texas at Austin provides an overview of the planet’s freshwater supplies and strategies for sustainably managing them.

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New Research Shows Recovering Tropical Forests Offset Just One Quarter of Carbon Emissions From New Tropical Deforestation and Forest Degradation

A pioneering global study has found deforestation and forests lost or damaged due to human and environmental change, such as fire and logging, are fast outstripping current rates of forest regrowth.

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NASA’s Fermi Captures Dynamic Gamma-Ray Sky in New Animation

Cosmic fireworks, invisible to our eyes, fill the night sky. We can get a glimpse of this elusive light show thanks to the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which observes the sky in gamma rays, the highest-energy form of light.

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Minimizing Electric Vehicles’ Impact on the Grid

National and global plans to combat climate change include increasing the electrification of vehicles and the percentage of electricity generated from renewable sources.

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When Someone Sneezes on Everest, Their Germs Can Last for Centuries

Almost five miles above sea level in the Himalayan mountains, the rocky dip between Mount Everest and its sister peak, Lhotse, lies windswept, free of snow. 

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New Study Finds Early Warning Signs Prior to 2002 Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapse

In 2002, an area of ice about the size of Rhode Island dramatically broke away from Antarctica as the Larsen B ice shelf collapsed. 

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