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Food Production Using Controlled Environment Agriculture and Agrivoltaics Systems Could Become the New Normal

New research from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Virginia Tech suggests that technologies such as controlled environment agriculture and agrivoltaics may become part of the future of farming.

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First Global Study of Coastal Seas as Carbon Dioxide Reservoirs Possible

Coastal seas form a complex transition zone between the two largest CO2 sinks in the global carbon cycle: land and ocean.

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Texas Heat Index Rising Faster Than Temperature, Study Finds

A new study of summer weather in Texas finds the heat index — an indicator of how hot it feels outside — is rising much faster than the temperature.

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Species Diversity Promotes Ecosystem Stability

A new study from McGill University and the Max Planck Institute and published recently in Science suggests an answer to this question that has stood unanswered for half a century among ecologists.

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Enormous Ice Loss from Greenland Glacier

Ground-based measuring devices and aircraft radar operated in the far northeast of Greenland show how much ice the 79° N Glacier is losing.

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Snowstorm Coats the Rockies

As winter turned to spring, a mid-March storm dropped several feet of snow on Colorado.

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Say Hello to Biodegradable Microplastics

Microplastics are tiny, nearly indestructible fragments shed from everyday plastic products.

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Reimagining the Future of Solar Energy

New research suggests that there might be other ways to generate solar energy than just trying to make individual solar cells super-efficient.

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Toronto Researchers Devise New Method to Find Proteins for Targeted Treatment of Disease

Researchers at the University of Toronto and Sinai Health have created a new platform to identify proteins that can be co-opted to control the stability of other proteins — a new but largely unrealized approach to the treatment of disease.

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Climate Change Disrupts Vital Ecosystems in the Alps

Reduced snow cover and shifting vegetation patterns in the Alps, both driven by climate change, are having major combined impacts on biodiversity and functioning of ecosystems in the high mountains, according to new research published today.

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