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Hurricane Beryl Hurtles into the Caribbean

The first Atlantic hurricane of 2024 produced dangerous winds and life-threatening storm surge as it barreled into the Caribbean’s Grenadine Islands.

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Brazil Is Seeing a Record Number of Wildfires This Year

In the Amazon, Brazil has made huge gains in its battle against deforesters, but it is increasingly losing ground to another threat: climate change.

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How Does Climate Change Affect Birds?

Research staff from the UPV and the UV assess the impact of climate change on the productivity of the common reed warbler and the moustached warbler.

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Ocean Acidification Turns Fish off Coral Reefs

A new study of coral reefs in Papua New Guinea shows ocean acidification simplifies coral structure, making crucial habitat less appealing to certain fish species.

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Dampening the “Seeds” of Hurricanes

Increased atmospheric moisture may alter critical weather patterns over Africa, making it more difficult for the predecessors of many Atlantic hurricanes to form, according to a new study published this month. 

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Home Reef Volcano Grows

Dry land is ephemeral at Home Reef, a mid-ocean volcano in the central Tonga islands. 

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Climate Change to Shift Tropical Rains Northward

A study led by a UC Riverside atmospheric scientist predicts that unchecked carbon emissions will force tropical rains to shift northward in the coming decades, which would profoundly impact agriculture and economies near the Earth's equator.

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In the Grip of Global Heat

It’s only the beginning of the summer season in the Northern Hemisphere, but Earth is already roasting.

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New Tool Enables Faster, More Cost-Effective Genome Editing of Traits to Improve Agriculture Sustainability

With the goal of reducing the time and cost it takes to bring an improved crop to the marketplace to improve agriculture sustainability, research conducted in the laboratory of Keith Slotkin, PhD, and with his collaborator, Veena Veena, PhD, director of the Plant Transformation Facility, was recently published in the scientific journal Nature. 

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Antarctic Ice Shelves Hold Twice as Much Meltwater As Previously Thought

Slush – water-soaked snow – makes up more than half of all meltwater on the Antarctic ice shelves during the height of summer, yet is poorly accounted for in regional climate models.

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