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Researchers Help Indonesia Better Prepare for Natural Disasters

Logistics and operational research experts from Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) will help Indonesian disaster preparedness and response organisations improve their decision-making capabilities on how to prepare for natural disasters.

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KIT is Planning for Climate Research in Space

The CAIRT satellite mission is becoming increasingly likely. The European Space Agency (ESA) has now selected the concept, that was coordinated by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), as one of two remaining candidates for an Earth observation mission.

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New Tool to Enable Exploration of Human-Environment Interactions

Spurred by the current climate crisis, there has been a heightened attention within the scientific community in recent years to how past climate variation contributed to historic human migration and other behaviors.

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NASA’s Webb Reveals New Features in Heart of Milky Way

The latest image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope shows a portion of the dense center of our galaxy in unprecedented detail, including never-before-seen features astronomers have yet to explain. 

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Study Highlights Need to Keep an Eye on the Ozone Hole

Despite public perception, the Antarctic ozone hole has been remarkably massive and long-lived over the past four years, University of Otago researchers believe chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) aren’t the only things to blame.

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Protect Delicate Polar Ecosystems by Mapping Biodiversity

Polar regions contain vast, undiscovered biodiversity but are both the most-threatened and least-understood areas of the world.

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Heat Tolerant Coral May Trade Fast Growth for Resilience

Algae living within the soft tissue of coral supply much of the energy needed by their hosts, and some symbiotic algae help coral withstand warmer water better than others.

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Deep Dive on Sea Level Rise: New Modelling Gives Better Predictions on Antarctic Ice Sheet Melt

Using historical records from around Australia, an international team of researchers has put forward the most accurate prediction to date of past Antarctic ice sheet melt, providing a more realistic forecast of future sea level rise.

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AI Finds Formula on How to Predict Monster Waves

Long considered myth, freakishly large rogue waves are very real and can split apart ships and even damage oil rigs.

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