Got any spaces left on that 2020 bingo card? Pencil in “another Dust Bowl in the Great Plains.” A study from University of Utah researchers and their colleagues finds that atmospheric dust levels are rising across the Great Plains at a rate of up to 5% per year.
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Stars in the Sea, How the Ability to Clone Itself May Empower a Mystery Globetrotter
It always pays to think outside of the box. Rachel Collin decided to look further afield to find the adult form that matched a larvae from a plankton sample in Panama and was surprised by the result.
One-Two Punch - Researchers Look into the Effects of Repeated Droughts on Different Kinds of Forests
Drought is endemic to the American West along with heatwaves and intense wildfires.
Penn Engineers Create Helical Topological Exciton-Polaritons, a New Type of Quasiparticles with Applications in Quantum Computing
Our understanding of quantum physics has involved the creation of a wide range of “quasiparticles.” These notional constructs describe emergent phenomena that appear to have the properties of multiple other particles mixed together.
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Research rooted in Labrador focused on climate change and mental health is featured in a new highly-anticipated Canadian documentary.
Act Now on Wildfires, Global Climate Change, Human Health, Study Says
A special report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, led by Professor Yuming Guo and Dr Shanshan Li from the Monash School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, summarises the enormous impacts of climate change on wildfire seasons and the sequential increased morbidity, mortality, and mental health impacts.