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How Mountains Affect El Niño-Induced Winter Precipitation

A consideration of how mountains influence El Niño- and La Niña-induced precipitation change in western North America may be the ticket to more informed water conservation planning along the Colorado River, new research suggests.

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Smart Microgrids Can Restore Power More Efficiently and Reliably in an Outage

It’s a story that’s become all too familiar — high winds knock out a power line, and a community can go without power for hours to days, an inconvenience at best and a dangerous situation at worst. 

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Discovery About Protective Wax Around Plants Might Hold the Key to Developing Stronger Crops

A team of U of T Scarborough researchers have discovered that the waxy protective barrier around plants might play a role in sending chemical signals to other plants and insects. 

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Harvesting More Solar Energy With Supercrystals

Hydrogen is a building block for the energy transition. 

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Flooding in Southern Brazil

Two months after an extratropical cyclone hit southern Brazil, storms and flooding continued to wreak havoc on the region in mid-November 2023.

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Antarctic Iceberg Sails Away

For decades, Iceberg A-23A sat quietly, out of sight, off the coast of Antarctica.

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Webb Study Reveals Rocky Planets Can Form in Extreme Environments

An international team of astronomers has used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to provide the first observation of water and other molecules in the highly irradiated inner, rocky-planet-forming regions of a disk in one of the most extreme environments in our galaxy.

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Why We Won’t Know When We’ve Passed the 1.5-Degree Threshold

While the Paris Agreement aims to limit warming to 1.5 degrees C, experts won’t know when we have surpassed this threshold, a fact that could undermine global efforts to tackle climate change, scientists say.

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New Methods for Improving Water Management to Develop Sustainable Cities

Water, as one of the essential natural resources, is vital for the growth of any region.

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