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Can Steelmaking Waste Help Solar Power Store Energy?

Storing energy as heat is a proven pathway to address the challenge solar power faces when it’s dark or cloudy outside by enabling the capture, storage and on-demand release of thermal energy.

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We Could Soon Be Able to Track Changes in Australia’s Forests in Near-real Time – Using Satellites

Forests and woodlands cover millions of hectares across Australia, from tropical rainforests and temperate eucalypt forests to the vast woodlands and shrublands of the arid interior.

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Why Most Rivers Don’t Respond to Storms the Same Way Twice

The same amount of rain falling on the same landscape at different times can send very different amounts of water into its rivers, according to a new study in Nature Water.

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Pollinators Keep a Later Calendar in Human-Modified Landscapes, Study Finds

Human development may be changing more than where pollinators live — it may also be changing when they are active.

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Study Confirms Permanent Loss of Canada’s Last Arctic Epishelf Lake

Canada’s last epishelf lake drained into the Arctic Ocean following the 2020 breakup of the Milne Ice Shelf and will not recover, a new study confirms.

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A New Approach to Forecasting Toxic Metals in Wildfire Smoke

In early July 2026, Stanford postdoctoral researcher Alex Honeyman and graduate student Mark Leone attached a box the size of a briefcase to a firetruck in Colorado that was about to be dispatched to a wildfire 300 miles away.

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MIT Makes Progress on Campus Climate Goals

In 2021, MIT set campus decarbonization goals as part of its Fast Forward climate action plan.

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Ice Loss in the Antarctic: Numerous Blind Spots

Geographers at FAU involved in international study – a lack of data hampers reliable prediction of rising global sea levels.

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Wildfire Smoke May Be More Harmful Than Other Air Pollution, Two Mount Sinai Studies Find

Wildfire-related PM2.5 linked to higher hospitalization risks for cardiovascular and respiratory disease and poorer survival among people with lung cancer.

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SwRI Study Finds Evidence of Liquid Recently Flowing on Pluto’s Surface

A new study led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) provides evidence that liquid nitrogen is rising to Pluto’s surface through cracks in the northern edge of the Sputnik Planitia, part of the massive heart-shaped glacier on the dwarf planet’s surface.

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