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Warning on Quality of Rainwater

Rainwater tanks are a popular way for Australians to save water, but new research has found they can also harbour potentially harmful bacteria and metals that could pose health concerns.

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Australia's Bushfire Crisis Linked to Colonial Land-Use Change

Forest expansion and thickening after British colonisation has created landscapes more prone to burning, amplifying the influence of climate change and propelling Australia’s bushfire crisis, a new study has found.

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Wildfire Ozone Pollution Weakening Amazon’s Ability to Absorb Carbon

Soils are warming quickly and at considerable depth across Alaska, with temperatures rising fastest in the state’s permafrost region, a trend that could accelerate climate change and undermine the stability of roads, buildings and other infrastructure built on the continuously frozen ground.

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UVM Study Reveals How Lake Trout Embryos Acquire Thiamine in the Wild

For decades, fisheries managers have struggled to restore wild populations of lake trout recruitment across the Great Lakes region, with limited success.

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Itching for a Solution: Addressing Mosquito-Borne Disease as Climate Change Bites

Prevention measures, including vector control, vaccine deployment and cutting greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming are critical to counter the growing burden of mosquito-borne diseases in a changing climate, according to a new paper by Monash University researchers.

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Forests Are Dying Along North Carolina’s Coast – And It’s Speeding Up

A new study finds that coastal forest loss in North Carolina’s Albermarle-Pamlico Peninsula began accelerating after 2010 and may still be speeding up.  

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An Electrical Technique for Identifying Signs of Life in Space

Researchers from the University of Osaka use artificial intelligence and nanotechnology to detect amino acid biosignatures.

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Why Icy Landscapes Can Behave Like Oobleck

URochester researchers use mathematical modeling to explore how wave-like soil patterns form—and what they could reveal about landscape stability.

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New Discovery Sheds Light on How the Congo’s Peatlands -enormous Carbon Sinks - Function

A team from the University of Lausanne has developed a new approach to better understand the carbon cycle in the Congo’s peatlands, one of our planet’s lungs. 

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Pollen Study Reveals the Hidden History of Grasses

Scientists used machine-learning and super-resolution microscopy to overcome a challenge that has stymied research into the natural history of grasses for decades. 

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