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AI Paves the Way Towards Green Cement

The cement industry produces around eight percent of global CO₂ emissions – more than the entire aviation sector worldwide. 

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Lightning Strikes the Arctic: What Will It Mean for the Far North?

A warmer world is expected to bring more thunderstorms, especially at higher latitudes. 

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Some of Your AI Prompts Could Cause 50 Times More CO2 Emissions Than Others

Every query typed into a large language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, requires energy and produces CO2 emissions. 

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Sea Ice Plays Important Role in Variability of Carbon Uptake by Southern Ocean

New research reveals the importance of winter sea ice in the year-to-year variability of the amount of atmospheric CO2 absorbed by a region of the Southern Ocean. 

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How Ubiquitous Small Particles Turn Harmful Inside Plants

A new UC Riverside-led study reveals how common small particles produced by nature as well as human activities can transform upon entering plant cells and weaken plants’ ability to turn sunlight into food.

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Climate Change May Make Prescribed Fires Rarer – but Increase Their Air Quality Impacts

Prescribed burns are important for land management and preventing wildfires, but a new study finds these managed fires are also significant contributors to air pollution in the southeastern United States – particularly in areas with large minority and low-income populations. 

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Helping Energy Systems Weather the Storm

When Hurricane Fiona struck Puerto Rico in 2022, it exposed the vulnerabilities of the island’s energy infrastructure.

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Climate Change Cuts Global Crop Yields, Even When Farmers Adapt

The global food system faces growing risks from climate change, even as farmers seek to adapt, according to a June 18 study in Nature.

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New Research Maps Optimal Locations for Climate-Fighting Reforestation

New research from the Future Ecosystems for Africa program at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, has created the most accurate maps yet of where reforestation can effectively combat climate change.

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Tree Rings Reveal Increasing Rainfall Seasonality in Amazon

Scientists have used clues locked into tree rings to reveal major changes in the Amazon’s rainfall cycle over the last 40 years: wet seasons are getting wetter and dry seasons drier.

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