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Heat Now More Lethal Than Cold for People with Respiratory Diseases in Spain
A new study by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation, has analysed deaths linked to respiratory disease in Spain between 1980 and 2016.
Climate Change Will Turn Coastal Antarctica Green
Scientists have created the first ever large-scale map of microscopic algae as they bloomed across the surface of snow along the Antarctic Peninsula coast.
Less Water Could Sustain More Californians If We Make Every Drop Count
"California isn’t running out of water,” says Richard Luthy. “It’s running out of cheap water. But the state can’t keep doing what it’s been doing for the past 100 years.”
From Resilience to Adaptation: The Case of Hurricanes
Researchers bring together interdependent data to build communities that are resilient to disasters.
Caves Tell Us That Australia’s Mountains Are Still Growing
Australia has often been unfairly portrayed as an old and idle continent with little geological activity, but new research suggests that we remain geologically active and that some of our mountains are still growing.