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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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First Observational Evidence of Beaufort Gyre Stabilization, Which Could be Precursor to Huge Freshwater Release

A new study provides the first observational evidence of the stabilization of the anti-cyclonic Beaufort Gyre, which is the dominant circulation of the Canada Basin and the largest freshwater reservoir in the Arctic Ocean.

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