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EVs Are Lowering Bay Area’s Carbon Footprint

An extensive CO2 monitoring network set up around the San Francisco Bay Area by an atmospheric chemist from the University of California, Berkeley, has recorded the first evidence that the adoption of electric vehicles is measurably lowering the area's carbon emissions.

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Australia on Track for Unprecedented, Decades-Long Megadroughts

Australia could soon see megadroughts that last for more than 20 years, according to new modelling from The Australian National University (ANU) and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes.

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A New Estimate of U.S. Soil Organic Carbon to Improve Earth System Models

Soil contains about twice as much carbon as the atmosphere and plants combined.

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AI Writing, Illustration Emits Hundreds of Times Less Carbon Than Humans

With the evolution of artificial intelligence comes discussion of the technology's environmental impact. 

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Discovery Could End Global Amphibian Pandemic

A fungus devastating frogs and toads on nearly every continent may have an Achilles heel.

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Challenges for Blue Whale Populations

The largest living animal, the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) which averages about 27 metres in length, has slowly recovered from whaling only to face the rising challenges of global warming, pollution, disrupted food sources, shipping, and other human threats.

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Coastal Dunes on the March

Coastal transgressive dunefields are on the march in South Australia – retreating inland from an angry ocean at an alarming rate.

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For Mining in Arid Regions to be Responsible, We Must Change How we Think About Water, Say UMass Amherst Researchers

A research team led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in collaboration with the University of Alaska-Anchorage and Columbia University, has conducted the widest-ever hydrological tracer analysis of the Dry Andes region in Chile, Argentina and Bolivia, home to the majority of the world’s lithium deposits and other elements, such as copper, critical to the green energy transition away from oil and toward electricity.

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Corn Reduces Arsenic Toxicity in Soil

Arsenic is a toxic metalloid of natural origin. Arsenic-contaminated soils and waters are found all over the world, especially in southeastern Asian countries like Bangladesh, Vietnam, and China.

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