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After a 400-Year Absence, A Rare Ibis Returns to European Skies

With its black body and wide wings, the bird flying along Austria’s Salzach Valley on a mild summer day looks, at first glance, a lot like a crow. But when it lands in a nearby meadow, it quickly becomes clear that this is a very different animal.

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The new storm chasers? Unmanned ocean gliders go deep to help improve hurricane forecasts

NOAA will soon launch a fleet of 15 unmanned gliders in the Caribbean Sea and tropical Atlantic Ocean this hurricane season to collect important oceanic data that could prove useful to forecasters.

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Scientists recover possible fragments of meteorite that landed in marine sanctuary

The largest recorded meteorite to strike the United States in 21 years fell into NOAA’s Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, and researchers have recovered what are believed to be pieces of the dense, interstellar rock after conducting the first intentional hunt for a meteorite at sea.  

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Medical errors may stem more from physician burnout than unsafe health care settings

Physician burnout is at least equally responsible for medical errors as unsafe medical workplace conditions, if not more so, according to a study led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

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Climate Change Is Making Nighttime Clouds More Visible

Those wispy, iridescent, high-altitude clouds sometimes seen at dawn and dusk are becoming more visible due to climate change, according to a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Rising methane emissions have increased the amount of water vapor in the middle atmosphere, the study found, which then freezes around specks of dust to form the clouds.

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The Number of AC Units Installed Worldwide Could Quadruple by 2050

As global temperatures rise due to climate change, the number of air conditioning units in use globally is expected to quadruple by mid-century, increasing from 3.6 billion today to 14 billion in 2050, according to a new report by scientists at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. As a result, the world will consume five times more energy for cooling than it does today.

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Climate Change-Induced March of Treelines Halted by Unsuitable Soils: Study

New research from the University of Guelph is dispelling a commonly held assumption about climate change and its impact on forests in Canada and abroad.

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Can A Tiny Fern Help Fight Climate Change and Cut Fertilizer Use?

Scientists have sequenced the entire genome of the tiny fern species Azolla filiculoides, a wunder-plant that played a pivotal role in cooling our planet 50 million years ago. Among its many properties, the Azolla can capture CO2 and nitrogen from the air and has genes that provide insect resistance.

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NASA Finds Fragmented Remnants of Beryl, Located West of Bermuda

The remnants of former Tropical Storm Beryl are being battered by upper level winds, and that’s fragmenting them even more. NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over the northwestern Atlantic Ocean and found some of those scattered thunderstorms were strong.

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Yale Researchers Identify Target for Novel Malaria Vaccine

A Yale-led team of researchers have created a vaccine that protects against malaria infection in mouse models, paving the way for the development of a human vaccine that works by targeting the specific protein that parasites use to evade the immune system. The study was published by Nature Communications.

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