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Strategic City Planning Can Help Reduce Urban Heat Island Effect

The tendency of cities to trap heat — a phenomenon called the “urban heat island,” often referred to as the UHI effect — can lead to dangerous temperatures in the summer months, but new Penn State research suggests that certain urban factors can reduce this effect.

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Extinct Offshore Volcano Could Store Gigatons of Carbon Dioxide

A new study published in Geology concludes that an extinct volcano off the shore of Portugal could store as much as 1.2-8.6 gigatons of carbon dioxide, the equivalent of ~24-125 years of the country’s industrial emissions.

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Study Finds Association Between Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution and Severe COVID-19

A long history of exposure to air pollution is associated with a higher risk of developing severe disease, admission to hospital or an intensive care unit (ICU) and death by COVID‑19 according to a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a research centre supported by the ”la Caixa” Foundation.

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A Break From the Lawn - Can an Iconic Meadow Seed Wider Change?

Dr Cicely Marshall, a researcher at King’s College and the University of Cambridge’s Department of Plant Sciences, led a study to monitor the effects.

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Montreal Protocol Is Delaying First Ice-Free Arctic Summer

When scientists discovered a hole over Antarctica in 1985, countries across the globe got together and wrote a treaty designed to protect the ozone layer, which shields the Earth--and us--from harmful levels of ultraviolet radiation.

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Exploring New Methods for Increasing Safety and Reliability of Autonomous Vehicles

When we think of getting on the road in our cars, our first thoughts may not be that fellow drivers are particularly safe or careful — but human drivers are more reliable than one may expect.

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Satellites Reveal Widespread Decline in Global Lake Water Storage

More than 50 percent of the largest lakes in the world are losing water, according to a groundbreaking new assessment published today in Science.

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Microorganisms’ Climate Adaptation Can Slow Down Global Warming

A new study from Lund University in Sweden shows that the ability of microorganisms to adapt to climate warming will slow down global warming by storing carbon in soil.

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Cheap and Effective Monitoring of Glacier Discharge

Glaciers have been melting and shrinking at an alarming rate, raising the sea-level and causing outburst floods.

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