Environment

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How Freshwater Hides Beneath Oceans—and Why It Matters Science

How Freshwater Hides Beneath Oceans—and Why It Matters

Vast reserves of freshwater lie trapped beneath the seafloor worldwide, totaling an estimated 500,000 cubic kilometers. Scientists are now mapping the...

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How Beaver Dams Store Carbon and Reshape Rivers Science

How Beaver Dams Store Carbon and Reshape Rivers

Beavers are nature's most prolific engineers, building dams that create wetlands, store massive amounts of carbon, reduce flooding, and boost biodiver...

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What Is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone and Why It Matters Science

What Is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone and Why It Matters

The Clarion-Clipperton Zone is a vast stretch of Pacific seafloor rich in critical minerals and undiscovered species. It sits at the center of the glo...

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Poland Allocates PLN 16 Million to Brown Bear Protection Program Science

Poland Allocates PLN 16 Million to Brown Bear Protection Program

The Ministry of Climate has launched a four-year, PLN 16 million+ program to protect the brown bear, encompassing prevention, intervention, and educat...

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What Is the EPA Endangerment Finding and How It Works Science

What Is the EPA Endangerment Finding and How It Works

The EPA's 2009 endangerment finding declared greenhouse gases a threat to public health, unlocking federal authority to regulate emissions from vehicl...

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Younger Dryas: Volcanoes, Not a Comet, to Blame, Study Finds Science

Younger Dryas: Volcanoes, Not a Comet, to Blame, Study Finds

A study published in PLOS One demonstrates that a 12,800-year-old platinum spike in Greenland ice cores originated from Icelandic volcanic eruptions,...

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How Ice Cores Work—and What They Reveal Science

How Ice Cores Work—and What They Reveal

Scientists drill deep into polar ice sheets to extract frozen cylinders that preserve hundreds of thousands of years of climate history, from ancient...

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Giant Granite Mass Found Beneath Antarctica's Ice Science

Giant Granite Mass Found Beneath Antarctica's Ice

Scientists discovered a 100-kilometer-wide granite body buried beneath Pine Island Glacier by tracing pink boulders on Antarctica's Hudson Mountains,...

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How Tropical Peatlands Work—and Why They're Burning Science

How Tropical Peatlands Work—and Why They're Burning

Tropical peatlands store more carbon than all the world's forests combined, yet wildfires in these ecosystems have reached a 2,000-year high. Here's h...

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How Solar Wind Stripped Mars of Its Atmosphere Science

How Solar Wind Stripped Mars of Its Atmosphere

Billions of years ago, Mars had rivers, lakes, and a thick atmosphere. Today it is a frozen desert. The culprit is the solar wind—and the loss of the...

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How Sharks Form Social Bonds—and Why It Matters Science

How Sharks Form Social Bonds—and Why It Matters

New research overturns the image of sharks as solitary killers. From bull sharks in Fiji to lemon sharks in the Bahamas, science reveals that many spe...

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What Is Chlorpyrifos and How It Triggers Parkinson's Health

What Is Chlorpyrifos and How It Triggers Parkinson's

Chlorpyrifos, a pesticide still used on food crops worldwide, has been linked to more than double the risk of Parkinson's disease. New research reveal...

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