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How Is Climate Change Affecting Ocean Waters and Ecosystems?
Biological oceanographer Hugh Ducklow describes decades of work in far-flung places to understand the evolving ecology of the oceans. The picture is not always clear.
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Scientists Say a Shipwreck Off Patagonia Is a Long-Lost 1850s Rhode Island Whaler
In 1858, a sailing ship left Warren, R.I., to hunt the globe for whales, and never returned. Where did it end up? Researchers from the southern and northern hemispheres joined to investigate.
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17 Million-Year-Old Teeth Open Windows Into Early Ape and Human Evolution
A new study shows that natural variants of oxygen within ancient animal teeth recorded details of seasonal rainfall, environmental conditions and animal behavior.
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Is Air Pollution Fueling Stronger Thunderstorms? Project Aims to Find Out
In Houston, researchers are studying how air pollution particles affect the strength and lifecycle of storms in order to improve weather and climate forecasting.
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Multiform Floods: A Growing Climate Threat
When different types of floods occur in close succession or simultaneously, the challenges to communities can be immense.
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Balancing Act: Can Precariously Perched Boulders Signal New York’s Earthquake Risk?
Long ago, melting glaciers dropped giant boulders onto surfaces in the New York City exurbs, and many seem to remain in their original, delicately balanced positions. Can they be used to judge the maximum sizes of past earthquakes?
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More Frequent European Heat Waves Linked to Changes in Jet Stream
A new study shows that weather systems that normally cool part of the continent are being diverted northward. This is combining with overall warming to produce long-lived heat waves.
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Dinosaurs Took Over Amid Ice, Not Warmth, Says a New Study of Ancient Mass Extinction
There is new evidence that ancient high latitudes, to which early dinosaurs were largely relegated, regularly froze over, and that the creatures adapted—an apparent key to their later dominance.
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Study Sees Potential Ways to Mitigate India’s Risk of Groundwater Depletion
Government-subsidized electricity has played a big role in pumping out groundwater for irrigation at an unsustainable rate. Changing the system could help, say researchers.
