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| 1 | Aug. 27, 2024 - Millions of women who work in the fisheries industry are being left behind as technologies develop to counter the effects of climate change and economic pressures. A new study examines this global ... | |
| 1 | Sep. 25, 2024 - Researchers conducted a survey of 267 households near Mkomazi National Park in northern Tanzania and found that food security was much more important than financial or educational security in ... | |
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| 5 | Aug. 23, 2024 - Researchers have unveiled the first comprehensive global evaluation of 1,500 climate policy measures from 41 countries across six continents. The study provides a detailed impact analysis of the wide ... | |
| 5 | Sep. 13, 2024 - Researchers analyzed how erratic weather events, increasingly intensified by global warming, affect global production and consumption across different income ... | |
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| 9 | Aug. 22, 2024 - The statewide study found that the link between pollutants and ER visits is more pronounced in communities that were once denied mortgages due to ... | |
| 9 | Sep. 13, 2024 - A nationwide analysis of community-level floodplain development found that over two-million acres of floodplain were developed over the past two decades across the United States, with roughly half of ... | |
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| 13 | Aug. 22, 2024 - Researchers have shown that the 20 companies retiring the most offsets from the voluntary carbon market -- or VCM -- over the past four years have largely relied on low-quality, low-cost credits. ... | |
| 13 | Sep. 12, 2024 - In a series of focus groups conducted in different areas of the United States, doctors and patients expressed openness to considering environmental factors when discussing treatment options. The ... | |
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| 17 | Aug. 20, 2024 - Heat waves, droughts, and fires place growing stress on the West's electric grid. New research suggests that more integrated management of electricity resources across the region could ... | |
| 17 | Sep. 12, 2024 - A sweeping global research review of the links between climate and agriculture reveals the likelihood of an emergent feedback loop whereby, as climate change puts more pressure on the global food ... | |
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| 21 | Aug. 19, 2024 - As the world faces the challenges of mitigating climate change and providing resources for a growing population, there is increasing focus on developing circular economies for sustainable production. ... | |
| 21 | Sep. 12, 2024 - Researchers can harvest protein and vitamin B9 from microbes by feeding them nothing much more than hydrogen, oxygen, and CO2. The technology runs on renewable energy to produce a sustainable, ... | |
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| 25 | Aug. 19, 2024 - The design of streets and layout of buildings have an impact on a city's resilience in the face of increasingly severe floods brought on by climate change. Researchers look at buildings and ... | |
| 25 | Sep. 11, 2024 - Scientists found that the strength of the Florida Current, the beginning of the Gulf Stream system and a key component of the global Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, has remained ... | |
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| 29 | Aug. 16, 2024 - An international research team combined multidisciplinary methods to evaluate how nitrogen interventions could improve air quality and reduce nitrogen deposition. Their study found that ... | |
| 29 | Sep. 10, 2024 - Methane concentrations in Earth's atmosphere increased at record speed over the past five years. At least two-thirds of annual methane emissions now come from human activities, including fossil ... | |
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| 33 | Aug. 15, 2024 - If the U.S. became seafood independent, or meet its entire seafood needs through its own production, it could offer opportunities for improving dietary outcomes as well as individual and national ... | |
| 33 | Sep. 9, 2024 - The study shows how global warming can combine with normal variations in the weather to produce decade-long periods of very rapid changes in both extreme temperatures and ... | |
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| 37 | Aug. 15, 2024 - Establishing Key Biodiversity Areas in the Southern Ocean will be vital for safeguarding the ecosystem from the impact of human activities, researchers ... | |
| 37 | Sep. 6, 2024 - Conservation needs to scale successfully to protect nature. A new paper takes lessons from around the world to show how that might be ... | |
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| 41 | Aug. 14, 2024 - A new article concludes that current climate standards are not sufficiently incentivizing the big picture innovations necessary to deliver net zero, and must be expanded to include a company's ... | |
| 41 | Sep. 5, 2024 - An International study has analyzed methane gas fluxes in over a hundred tidal wetlands and marshes in the USA. The analysis has identified key environmental factors affecting methane emissions and ... | |
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| 45 | Aug. 14, 2024 - India's plans to scale up fracking operations without robust regulations could spell disaster for the country's finely balanced water security, according to ... | |
| 45 | Sep. 4, 2024 - Much of the nation's stormwater infrastructure, designed decades to a century ago to prevent floods, can exacerbate flooding during the severe weather events that are increasing around the ... | |
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| 49 | Aug. 14, 2024 - Parent size and the conditions in which actively spawning adults lived are the most influential factors affecting growth of Lake Erie walleye, a new study has ... | |
| 49 | Sep. 4, 2024 - A new study shines a light on the enormous scale of uncollected rubbish and open burning of plastic waste in the first ever global plastics pollution inventory. Researchers used A.I. to model waste ... | |
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| 53 | Aug. 14, 2024 - In 2017, the Minamata Convention on Mercury went into effect, designed to help curb mercury emissions and limit exposure across the globe. However, a new study of mercury levels in soil suggests that ... | |
| 53 | Sep. 3, 2024 - New research has revealed that informing tourists visiting the Great Barrier Reef about climate impact doesn't negatively affect their experience and can help encourage climate ... | |
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| 57 | Aug. 13, 2024 - A recent study details how trees in New York City and Boston are more negatively impacted by heat waves and drought than trees of the same species in nearby rural forests. The finding highlights the ... | |
| 57 | Sep. 2, 2024 - Securing the world's water supply is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Researchers are now presenting an alternative method for quantifying the global risk of water scarcity. Results ... | |
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| 61 | Aug. 13, 2024 - Planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions associated with the global food supply chains induced by diets could fall by 17% if people change their food choices towards more plant-based ... | |
| 61 | Aug. 29, 2024 - Researchers predict that 12.7% of marine teleost fish species are at risk of extinction, up fivefold from the International Union for Conservation of Nature's prior estimate of 2.5%. Their ... | |
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| 65 | Aug. 13, 2024 - Food, feed, fiber, and bioenergy: The demand for agricultural raw materials is rising. How can additional cultivation areas be reconciled with nature conservation? Researchers have developed a ... | |
| 65 | Aug. 29, 2024 - Scientists have developed new guidance and tools that could significantly improve the prediction of life-threatening flash ... | |
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| 69 | Aug. 12, 2024 - New findings document fewer ship tracks, reduced cloud cover, and boosted warming after ship emissions regulations took effect in ... | |
| 69 | Aug. 28, 2024 - When it comes to purchasing and using electric vehicles (EVs), housing- and income-related factors significantly shape perceptions and preferences among potential buyers, finds a new study. This ... | |
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| 73 | Aug. 12, 2024 - Despite advancements in clean energy, global CO2 emissions continue to rise. IIASA researchers contributed to a new international study that underscores the importance of integrating technological ... | |
| 73 | Aug. 28, 2024 - New research has found limits to how quickly we can scale up technology to store gigatons of carbon dioxide under the Earth's ... | |
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| 77 | Aug. 12, 2024 - The familiar terms 'climate change' and 'global warming' are more likely to resonate with people than other commonly used ... | |
| 77 | Aug. 27, 2024 - Coastal cities play a key role in the global economy and have important functions for society at large. At the same time, they are severely affected by the impact of climate change. That is why their ... | |
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