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Greenland’s Camp Century Was Ice-Free When Summers Were a Few Degrees Warmer

UB-led study of ancient sediment offers new insights into ice sheet retreat at the former Cold War outpost.

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Turning Waste Into Fuel Could Help Cut Cement’s Carbon Footprint

Waste that would otherwise end up in landfill could help low-carbon cement production by reducing the industry’s reliance on fossil fuels, according to Australian researchers.

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Where Three Climate Zones Meet

The research was led by Enikő Magyari, a researcher at the Department of Environmental and Landscape Geography, ELTE Faculty of Science, and head of the DOMINO-CLIMATE Élvonal project.

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Creation of Cloud-Forming Aerosols Varies Across the Arctic

Based on aerosol–cloud interaction, the Arctic region is composed of three distinct ‘regimes’, as demonstrated in a study published in the Nature Geoscience journal.

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Habitat Quality Accounts for Shifts in Finnish Species More Than the Climate

Researchers at the University of Helsinki wanted to understand which is the dominant factor for species occurrence and abundance: the climate or habitat-related variables, such as their natural state and the share of land shaped by human activity.

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Study Finds Air Quality Warnings Had Only a Modest Impact on Montrealers’ Movements

When Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) urged Montrealers to limit outdoor activity during Canada’s worst wildfire smoke episodes, the city’s travel patterns shifted – but far less than public health officials might have hoped, according to a new McGill University study.

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Daily Exercise May Be Key to Better Sleep, New Study Finds

New research from The University of Texas at Austin suggests that exercising more frequently — ideally every day — could improve sleep quality, particularly the kind of deep, restorative sleep that supports better mood and mental health.

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Using Machine Learning and Computation to Unveil Mechanisms for Co₂-To-Fuel Conversion

Scientists are increasingly exploring carbon dioxide (CO₂) hydrogenation – where CO₂ reacts with hydrogen over a catalyst to give rise to products like methanol – to convert CO₂ into useful chemicals and fuels. 

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Discovery Marks the First Detection of Variable Water Clouds Outside of Our Solar System

A Jupiter-sized world just 7.5 light-years away is cloudy, chemically complex, and, it turns out, more like home than anyone expected.

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MIT Farm Is Growing

Co-founders Aleks Banaś and Zachary Rapaport see architecture and farming as deeply complementary disciplines. 

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