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Rice Lab Finds Better Way to Handle Hard-to-Recycle Material

Glass fiber-reinforced plastic (GFRP), a strong and durable composite material, is widely used in everything from aircraft parts to windmill blades.

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How Climate Change Risks Increase at a National Scale as the Level of Global Warming Increases

A major research programme led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) has quantified how climate change risks to human and natural systems increase at a national scale as the level of global warming increases.

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80 Mph Speed Record for Glacier Fracture Helps Reveal the Physics of Ice Sheet Collapse

There’s enough water frozen in Greenland and Antarctic glaciers that if they melted, global seas would rise by many feet. 

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Great Lakes Ice Coverage Reaches Historic Low

NOAA researchers at NOAA’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) report that they’ve seen a steady decrease in ice coverage across the Great Lakes, which has  reached a historic low. 

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Study Suggests People In Urban Areas With More Green Space Have Better Mental Health

A new study from the Texas A&M University School of Public Health suggests that city dwellers who have more exposure to urban green spaces require fewer mental health services.

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Meet NASA’s Twin Spacecraft Headed to the Ends of the Earth

Launching in spring 2024, the two small satellites of the agency’s PREFIRE mission will fill in missing data from Earth’s polar regions.

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Trapping Sulfate to Benefit Health, Industry and Waterways

Scientists have developed a new method to measure and remove sulfate from water, potentially leading to cleaner waterways and more effective nuclear waste treatments.

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Boiling, Filtering Water Can Get Rid of Microplastics, Study Finds

A new study finds that boiling and then filtering tap water can remove up to 90 percent of microplastics.

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Study Finds Drought Fuels Invasive Species After Wildfires

In a study recently published in the journal Ecology, University of California, Irvine scientists uncover the intricate dance between drought, wildfires and invasive species in Southern California’s coastal sage scrub ecosystems.

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New Study Is First Step in Predicting Carbon Emissions in Agriculture

For the first time, researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities (UMN) and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) have demonstrated that it is possible to provide accurate, high-resolution predictions of carbon cycles in agroecosystems, which could help mitigate the impacts of climate change.

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