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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
The waiting is over. After weeks of ominous earthquake swarms and warnings from geologists about the possibility of an eruption, lava began to pour from a new fissure on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland late on December 18, 2023.
A winter wonderland calls to mind piles of fluffy, glistening snow.
As the world heats up and the climate shifts, life will migrate, adapt or go extinct. For decades, scientists have deployed a specific method to predict how a species will fare during this time of great change.
A new method could be used by biologists to estimate the prevalence of disease in free-ranging wildlife and help determine how many samples are needed to detect a disease.
Wild North American grapes are now less of a mystery after an international team of researchers led by the University of California, Davis, decoded and catalogued the genetic diversity of nine species of this valuable wine crop.
In 2023, the U.S. experienced a record 25 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters — three more than the previous record, set in 2020.
