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Study Calls For Action to Explore Potential Impacts of Decommissioned Offshore Structures

Making uniform decisions to justify the decommissioning of offshore artificial structures at the end of their lives could pose significant environmental challenges, a new study has said.

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Water Warming Study Shows Unexpected Impact on Fish Size

The theory that water-breathing animals such as fish will shrink due to global warming has been called into question by a study published today in eLife.

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Exploring the Underground Connections Between Trees

Fungal networks interconnecting trees in a forest is a key factor that determines the nature of forests and their response to climate change.

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A Popular to Eat Crab is Losing Its Sense of Smell and Climate Change Might Be the Culprit

A new U of T Scarborough study finds that climate change is causing a commercially significant marine crab to lose its sense of smell, which could partially explain why their populations are thinning.

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Poor Mental Health in Medicine About More Than Just Doctors and Nurses, U of G Finds

In the early months of COVID-19, the nightly refrain of people banging pots and pans to drum up support for doctors and nurses on the frontlines of what would become a full-blown pandemic echoed around the world, a familiar sound of gratitude at a time when so much was unknown.

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UC Irvine, NASA JPL Researchers Discover a Cause of Rapid Ice Melting in Greenland

While conducting a study of Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory uncovered a previously unseen way in which the ice and ocean interact. 

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Viruses Could Reshuffle the Carbon Cycle in a Warming World

Microbes play important roles in ecosystems, and these roles are changing with global warming.

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Birds Are Shrinking as the Climate Warms — and Small Birds Are Shrinking Faster

As temperatures rise, birds’ bodies are growing smaller, but their wings are growing longer.

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Tracking Whales as They Cruise the Arctic

Fibre-optic cables line the coasts of the continents and criss-cross the oceans, carrying signals that are the backbone of communication in the modern world.

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Popocatépetl Volcano Keeps on Puffing

Popocatépetl is one of Mexico’s most active volcanoes.

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