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Move Over Robots — There’s a New Cleaning Method for Solar Panels

With their abundance of sunlight, deserts are valuable locations to harness solar energy. But in addition to sun, deserts also have an abundance of dust which settles on solar panels and reduces their efficiency.

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Cost to Protect Globally Important Forests Falls Disproportionately on Those Living Closest

Biodiversity conservation delivers enormous global economic benefits, but net benefits vary widely for different groups of people - with international stakeholders gaining most, and local rural communities bearing substantial costs.

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How Climate Change Puts Property Values at Risk in Forested Areas

Earth’s rapidly changing climate is taking an increasingly heavy toll on landscapes around the world in the form of floods, rising sea levels, extreme weather, drought and wildfire.

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More Snow Can Actually Cause Tundra to Thaw Faster, Unleashing Buried Carbon

With climate change, parts of the Arctic are seeing greater snowpack. Paradoxically, a thick blanket of snow can speed the melting of permafrost underneath, releasing buried stores of carbon, new research shows.

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Spreading Rock Dust on Farmland Has Potential to Draw Down Huge Sums of Carbon Dioxide

Adding volcanic rock dust to cropland could help the world reach a key carbon removal goal, a new study finds.

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Researchers Deconstruct Bee Stinger to Help Develop Tiny Medical Devices

New research deconstructing the anatomy of a honeybee stinger could help pave the way for a future generation of miniaturised medical devices used for drug delivery in humans.

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Neptune's Disappearing Clouds Linked to the Solar Cycle

Astronomers have uncovered a link between Neptune's shifting cloud abundance and the 11-year solar cycle, in which the waxing and waning of the Sun's entangled magnetic fields drives solar activity.

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Making Waves in Open Science: NASA Initiatives Enable Ocean Research

As NASA works to make data and research more meaningful and accessible to diverse public and scientific audiences, the agency’s Transform to Open Science (TOPS) program is supporting open science efforts and programs across a variety of scientific disciplines, including climate science and physical oceanography. 

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Study Finds More U.S. Crops to Require Irrigation

With climate change, irrigating more crops in the United States will be critical to sustaining future yields, as drought conditions are likely to increase due to warmer temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns. 

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