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Colorado River states bought time with a 3-year water conservation deal – now they need to think bigger
Arizona, California and Nevada have narrowly averted a regional water crisis by agreeing to reduce their use of Colorado River water over the next three years. This deal represents a temporary solution to a long-term...
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Tackling the MIT campus’s top energy consumers, building by building
When staff in MIT’s Department of Facilities would visualize energy use and carbon-associated emissions by campus buildings,...
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Just Between Us Squirrels, There Might Be Trouble in the Arctic Dating Scene
Male Arctic ground squirrels go through puberty every year. As if that wasn’t hard enough, now the females have a problem, too.According to a paper published on Thursday in the journal Science, climate change appears to be making them...
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River erosion can shape fish evolution, study suggests
If we could rewind the tape of species evolution around the world and play it forward over...
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Civil discourse project to launch at MIT
A new project on civil discourse aims to promote open and civil discussion of difficult topics on...
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Farmers face a soaring risk of flash droughts in every major food-growing region in coming decades, new research shows
Flash droughts develop fast, and when they hit at the wrong time, they can devastate a region’s agriculture.They’re also becoming increasingly common as the planet warms.In a new study published May 25, 2023,...
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A Powerful Climate Solution Just Below the Ocean’s Surface
They can bolster the coastlines, break the force of hurtling waves, provide housing for fish, shellfish, and migrating birds, clean the water, store as much as 5 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide, and pump oxygen into the ocean,...
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More than two dozen cities and states are suing Big Oil over climate change – they just got a boost from the US Supreme...
Honolulu has lost more than 5 miles of its famous beaches to sea level rise and storm surges. Sunny-day flooding during high tides makes many city roads impassable, and water mains for the public drinking...
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Biodiversity: Almost half of animals in decline, research shows
A study led by Queen's University Belfast finds 48% of species are undergoing population declines.
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MIT junior Anushree Chaudhuri named 2023 Udall Scholar
MIT junior Anushree Chaudhuri has been selected as a 2023 Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall...
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Indian Olympic wrestlers detained as latest protest escalates
Delhi police are being criticised for the way they shut down a march to the new parliament building.
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