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Outbreak of Fire Across South Korea

Dozens of wildland fires broke out as dry winds swept across South Korea in March 2025.

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5,700-Year Storm Archive Shows Rise in Tropical Storms and Hurricanes in the Caribbean

30-meter sediment core from the “Great Blue Hole” in Belize provides longest recorded storm frequency data for the Atlantic.

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Teaching Kids About Bugs Benefits the Environment

Pro-environmental behaviour increases among school students who participate in insect-related citizen science projects, according to new research from the University of Adelaide.

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Insecticides May Contribute to Bigger Problems With Certain Weeds

Insecticides may help growers hoping to protect their crops from harmful insects, but they also may contribute to a larger amount of some weeds, according to a study led by researchers at Penn State.

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NASA Takes to the Air to Study Wildflowers

For many plant species, flowering is biologically synced with the seasons. Scientists are clocking blooms to understand our ever-changing planet.

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New Study Calls for Uplisting Emperor Penguins to Threatened on IUCN Red List

Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), in collaboration with international partners, have developed a novel approach to addressing uncertainties in ecological and environmental projections, providing a more robust assessment of extinction risk for emperor penguins.

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Tree Diversity Helps Reduce Heat Peaks in Forests

A forest with high tree-species diversity is better at buffering heat peaks in summer and cold peaks in winter than a forest with fewer tree species.

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Snapshot of Antarctica’s Past Helps Predict Future Climate

In the first study to consider the long-term evolution of the rivers that flow beneath glaciers, researchers have new insights into the future of Antarctica’s melting ice that may change the way climate scientists predict the effects of a warming planet.

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Exploring the Future of Frozen Water

As the world focuses on glacier preservation this UN World Water Day, researchers at the University of Waterloo are exploring the glaciers of the Yukon’s St. Elias Mountains.

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Threatened by Warming Waters, Brook Trout May Be Able to Adapt to Hotter Weather

Heatwaves appear to trigger heritable gene expression changes that may help make the fish more tolerant of thermal stress, researchers report in novel study. 

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