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Researchers Test Seafloor Fiber Optic Cable as an Earthquake Early Warning System

One of the biggest challenges for earthquake early warning systems (EEW) is the lack of seismic stations located offshore of heavily populated coastlines, where some of the world’s most seismically active regions are located. 

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Ocean Circulation, Ice Melt and Increasing Tourism Could All be Contributing to Arctic Microplastics

Scientists measured microplastic concentrations in the highly productive Barents Sea and suggest that ocean circulation, ice melt, tourism, inadequate waste management, shipping and fishing are all likely contributors.

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World May Have Crossed Solar Power ‘Tipping Point’

The world may have crossed a “tipping point” that will inevitably make solar power our main source of energy, new research suggests.

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How to Help Save Plants From Extinction

Now is the time to identify the conditions that cause plants to die.

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NASA September 2023 Temperature Data Shows Continued Record Warming

Continuing the temperature trend from this summer, September 2023 was the hottest September on record, according to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).

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Ice Sheet Surface Melt Is Accelerating in Greenland and Slowing in Antarctica

Surface ice in Greenland has been melting at an increasing rate in recent decades, while the trend in Antarctica has moved in the opposite direction, according to researchers at the University of California, Irvine and Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

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Self-Correcting Quantum Computers Within Reach?

Harvard team’s method of reducing errors tackles major barrier to scaling up technology.

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New Threat to Antarctic Fur Seals

Antarctic fur seals that were hunted to near extinction have recovered but now face dangerous decline because of a lack of food, new research suggests.  

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MIT Design Would Harness 40 Percent of the Sun’s Heat to Produce Clean Hydrogen Fuel

MIT engineers aim to produce totally green, carbon-free hydrogen fuel with a new, train-like system of reactors that is driven solely by the sun.

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Wildfires Threaten Environmental Gains in Climate-Crucial Amazon

Despite steps toward decreasing deforestation, uncontrolled wildfires are threatening environmental gains in Brazilian Amazonia, one of the world’s most critical carbon sinks and a region of high biological and cultural diversity.

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