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[l] at 10/28/24 11:24pm
Concrete is the most ubiquitous manmade building material on the planet, but making it generates massive amounts of CO2 pollution. Companies are experimenting with ways to green the process, from slashing the use of limestone to capturing the carbon generated when it’s burned. Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 10/28/24 7:27am
Pollution seeping from gas stoves kills 40,000 people each year across the EU and U.K., according to a new report, the latest contribution to a growing body of evidence that stoves pose a threat to human health.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 10/25/24 7:22am
The loss of forest in New Zealand has led some native stoneflies to change color, a new study finds.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 10/24/24 3:19am
Predicting large and dangerous storms has always been challenging. It’s gotten tougher, says meteorologist James Marshall Shepherd, as a growing fringe has started to harass, verbally abuse, and threaten scientists and forecasters who link ferocious weather with climate change.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 10/23/24 7:12am
Recent sightings of the "Mekong ghost" fish in Cambodia offer hope for a creature once presumed extinct. Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 10/22/24 6:52am
An unusual early September cyclone drenched large parts of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, filling dry lakes and rivers. New satellite imagery from NASA shows the impact of the deluge.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 10/21/24 2:55am
Amid the war’s destruction, Ukrainian scientists are seeing signs of an ecological recovery. When the conflict ends, they say, the nation should not rebuild its massive Soviet-era infrastructure and instead continue the rewilding by letting nature keep restoring itself.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 10/18/24 6:11am
Young adults with higher levels of certain “forever chemicals" in their blood reported poorer sleep, a new study finds.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 10/17/24 9:15am
On a single day in August, Nigerian officials recovered more than 9 tons of illicit pangolin scales. The stockpile would be worth an estimated $1.7 million in East Asia, where pangolin scales are sold for their use in traditional medicine.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 10/16/24 6:30am
Scientists have successfully bred corals that are more tolerant of heat, showing for the first time that corals can become better adapted to warming within the space of a single generation.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 10/15/24 8:09am
As ocean temperatures remain stubbornly high, forecasters see a diminished chance that the Pacific Ocean will enter its cooler La Niña phase this fall, as was predicted.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 10/14/24 3:44am
Plankton form the base of the world’s food chain, but warmer and more acidic oceans are affecting their numbers and variety. Some species, which make for good fish food and carbon storage, are largely declining, while others are shifting their ranges and blooming times. Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 10/11/24 6:47am
While warming is pushing some European vegetation north, toward cooler weather, a new study finds that for many forest plants, there is a much greater pull westward. Researchers say these plants are chasing down nitrogen, a key nutrient supplied by pollution in Western Europe.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 10/10/24 3:03am
Since early 2023, the world has seen a steep rise in temperatures that scientists are struggling to explain. Our contributor Elizabeth Kolbert talked with Gavin Schmidt, NASA’s top climate scientist, about possible causes of the warming and why experts cannot account for the heat. Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 10/9/24 6:31am
Renewable power is on pace to produce close to half of the electricity used globally by the end of this decade, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency, which finds that in nearly every country large wind and solar plants are the cheapest forms of new power.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 10/8/24 3:53am
Ten years after officials seized $50 million worth of illegally harvested rosewood, the logs have been returned to the traffickers and sit in limbo in a Singapore port. The legal saga highlights the ongoing corruption and gaping holes in efforts to save endangered species.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 10/7/24 6:54am
Last year, the world's rivers had their driest year in at least three decades, according to a new U.N. report, which warns that heat and drought are sapping vital waterways.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 10/4/24 6:49am
Over the last four decades, vegetation cover on the Antarctic Peninsula has grown tenfold, a new study finds.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 10/3/24 2:35am
Twenty years ago, scientist Richard Thompson sounded the alarm on microplastics pollution. Now, as understanding of the problem has grown, he says it is critical that international negotiators produce an effective plastics treaty when they meet next month in South Korea.Read more on E360 →
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[l] at 10/2/24 7:24am
Scientists have found evidence of plastic additives in the air over Southern California, including one additive that has been banned from use in toys.Read more on E360 →

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