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Heavy Water Helps Weather Forecasts

Isotopes of atmospheric water leave fingerprints that can improve weather modeling.

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Climate Change Won’t Simply Shrink Marine Life

Global study of more than 23,000 marine mollusk species projects major shifts in body size by 2100 — including surprising growth in some animals and ocean regions.

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These Coastal Wildflowers Thrive in Salt-Laden Air That Kills Other Plants

On the windswept coasts of Oregon and California, there lives an unassuming little plant that can withstand salty blasts that kill its inland counterparts.

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Suburban Sprawl Puts Western Homes at Risk from Wildfires

Somersett, a short drive from downtown Reno, Nevada, is a peaceful place where homes with sweeping, high-desert views line cul-de-sacs and roads meander through shrubland, trailheads, and golf courses.

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A Surge of Marine Heat Waves Threatens to Scramble Ocean Life

The common octopus is a warm water species that usually lives in the temperate waters of the Mediterranean.

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Tangled Plastic, Fishing Gear Found in Pilot Whales

A new study by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers shows that nearly 23% of short-finned pilot whales that stranded over 13 years in the main Hawaiian Islands ingested several pounds of plastic ropes, netting, fishing gear and plastic bags that were discarded in the ocean.

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Data Centers are Helping Fuel a U.S. Battery Boom

Across the U.S., tech companies have courted backlash for using polluting gas generators to power massive new data centers.

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‘Damaging the Antarctic Damages Us All’ – Scientists Warn of the Potential Impacts of Coastal Freshening

Many of the Antarctic’s smallest inhabitants have evolved over millions of years so their body fluids are similar in chemical composition to that of sea water.

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Kelp Forest Loss Reverberates Down to Microbial Level

As one moves north, Maine’s kelp forests are being overtaken by dense mats of carpet-like turf algae.

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