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Beyond Lithium: New Battery Tech Starts to Break Through

The market for batteries these days is insatiable. Demand has grown more than fortyfold since 2010, thanks mainly to electric cars: Sales of EVs hit 20 million in 2025, or about a quarter of all cars sold globally.

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Bumblebees Exposed to Up to Seven Times as Much Toxic Metal as Honeybees

Metal pollution is a widespread issue, typically concentrated near industrial centres, mining areas and towns and cities.

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Understanding Earth’s Past Temperatures

Research at the University used a new method of measurement to understand how warm the Earth’s temperature has been over the Phanerozoic period – from around 540 million years ago to the present day.

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Climate Change Leaves Northern Tree Swallows Most Vulnerable

Tree swallows in the northern U.S. and Canada face the greatest risk from climate change despite responding to temperature the same way as tree swallows in the southern U.S, according to a new study led by Cornell researchers that analyzed nearly 95,000 nests across five decades.

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Slowing Atlantic Current Fueling Stronger California Storms

A slowing Atlantic Ocean current is projected to intensify powerful storms in California while reducing snowfall over Greenland, according to a new University of California, Riverside study. 

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Could Geoengineering Work to Tamp Down Super El Niños?

With an anticipated “super” El Niño looming, a new study led by UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography considers whether society could use a weather-altering technique as a tool to mitigate the floods, extreme heat and other events that El Niño would bring.

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How Tall and Short Trees Can Coexist in Old Growth Forests

Forests are shaped by light competition. The trees that grow the tallest have access to the most sunlight, blocking the rays and rendering the shaded space around them inhospitable to shorter trees below. 

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Using Microbes to Battle Pollution

The ability of bacteria to remove pollutants from soil, water, mine waste and other environments could be supercharged by a ‘friendly’ compatible virus, according to a study led by Flinders University.

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Scientists Find Ozone Depletion Began Decades Before Discovery of Ozone Hole

The Antarctic ozone hole was discovered in 1985, when scientists observed a severe depletion in the Earth’s protective layer of stratospheric ozone.

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More Colorful Songbirds Face Higher Extinction Risk

In the humid jungle of Vietnam, Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela and Monte Neate-Clegg spent hours patiently waiting to spot the rare “Halloween bird.” Officially known as the Collared Laughingthrush, this songbird has striking orange, silver, and black coloring and a distinct, singsong call.

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