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Robots Should Be Repurposed Rather Than Recycled to Combat Rising Scale of E-waste, Scientists Warn

The robotics industry should be creating robots that could be reprogrammed and repurposed for other tasks once its life span is completed, University of Bristol and University of West England researchers have advised.

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Pioneering Research Exposes Huge Loss of Glaciers in One of the Fastest-Warming Places on Earth

A new study has revealed the alarming extent glaciers have shrunk over the past 40 years in a global warming hotspot for the first time – and the biggest retreat has occurred in recent years.

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Cycle of Coral Bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef Now at ‘Catastrophic’ Levels

A team of marine scientists from the University of Sydney has published the first peer-reviewed study documenting the devastating coral bleaching events that occurred on the southern Great Barrier Reef in early 2024.

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Tropical Cyclone Sean Lashes Western Australia

On January 17, 2025, a tropical low formed over the Indian Ocean off Western Australia. 

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Extreme Climate Pushed Thousands of Lakes in West Greenland ‘Across a Tipping Point,’ Study Finds

West Greenland is home to tens of thousands of blue lakes that provide residents drinking water and sequester carbon from the atmosphere. 

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UO’s Earthquake Scientists Help Prep for the Next ‘Big One’

It's been 325 years since the last huge Cascadia shock, and researchers are getting ready for another with an array of new tools.

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Meltwater Ponds on the Amery Ice Shelf

Toward the end of 2024, less than halfway through the melt season in Antarctica, the icy continent had already seen bouts of widespread melting along its coastal areas. 

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New Water Purification Technology Helps Turn Seawater into Drinking Water Without Tons of Chemicals

Water desalination plants could replace expensive chemicals with new carbon cloth electrodes that remove boron from seawater, an important step of turning seawater into safe drinking water.

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Smaller Fish Offer Better Nutrition, Lower Environmental Cost

Smaller fish species are more nutritious, lower in mercury and less susceptible to overfishing, a Cornell-led research team has found.

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As Oceans Warm, Predators Are Falling Out of Sync with Their Prey

For decades on the U.S. Mid-Atlantic coast, recreational anglers have braved the cold temperatures of late October and November to chase one of the region’s most iconic fish species, the striped bass.

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