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UChicago Engineer Driving Key Role in Great Lakes Water Transformation

The Chicago-based Great Lakes ReNEW coalition has been awarded one of the largest, if not the largest, climate awards in the city’s history – up to $160 million over 10 years as one of the inaugural U.S. National Science Foundation’s Regional Innovation Engines.

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Rising Sea Levels Could Lead to More Methane Emitted from Wetlands

As sea levels rise due to global warming, ecosystems are being altered.

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Likelihood of More Ambulance Callouts as Heatwave Conditions Continue

As Australia swelters through a long, hot summer, the effects of heatwaves and the likelihood of ambulance callouts is at the heart of new Griffith University research.

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Diverse Forests Are Best at Standing up to Storms

European forests with a greater diversity of tree species are more resilient to storms, according to new research published in Functional Ecology.

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Use It or Lose It: How Seagrasses Conquered the Sea

Seagrasses provide the foundation of one of the most highly biodiverse, yet vulnerable, coastal marine ecosystems globally.

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Glacier Melting Destroys Important Climate Data Archive

As part of the Ice Memory initiative, PSI researchers, with colleagues from the University of Fribourg and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice as well as the Institute of Polar Sciences of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), analysed ice cores drilled in 2018 and 2020 from the Corbassière glacier at Grand Combin in the canton of Valais.

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Global Power Sector Emissions Headed for Decline

The power sector is the biggest source of emissions globally, but the rapid growth of wind, solar, and nuclear generation are at last pushing power sector emissions into decline, analysts say.

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Natural Hydrogen: A Potential Clean Energy Source Beneath Our Feet

A remote community of mud huts and corrugated iron roofs in the arid savannah of West Africa could be a trailblazer for a new form of carbon-free energy. T

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As Carbon Offsets, Cookstove Emission Credits Are Greatly Overestimated

The fastest growing type of offset on the global carbon market subsidizes the distribution of efficient cookstoves in developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but a new study finds that the stoves’ carbon saving credits are vastly overestimated, by a factor of 10.

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Study Offers Rare Long-Term Analysis of Techniques for Creating Standing Dead Trees for Wildlife Habitat

Ecologists have long known that standing dead trees, commonly referred to as snags, are an important habitat element for forest dwellers and act as a driver of biodiversity.

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