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Designing a more resilient future for plants, from the cell up
In a narrow strip of land along the Andes mountain range in central Chile, an Indigenous community...
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How natural hydrogen, hiding deep in the Earth, could serve as a new energy source
In the search for more, new and cleaner sources of energy, a largely untapped resource is emerging: natural hydrogen.Unlike hydrogen produced from industrial processes, natural hydrogen forms through geological reactions that occur normally within...
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The cost of casting animals as heroes and villains in conservation science
Scientists are philosophers, explorers, data collectors and number crunchers. They are also storytellers, placing data within a broader scientific and societal context. How they tell these stories matters.In our work as ecologists, we find that...
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How protecting wilderness could mean purposefully tending it, not just leaving it alone
More than 110 million acres of land across the U.S. are protected in 806 federally designated wilderness areas – together an area slightly larger than the state of California. For the most part, these places...
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Making sense of a chaotic planet: How understanding weather and climate risks depends on supercomputers like NCAR’s
Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the climate might evolve under different policies?The Earth system is a vast web of...
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More trees where they matter, please
One of the best forms of heat relief is pretty simple: trees. In cities, as studies have...
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Study reveals climatic fingerprints of wildfires and volcanic eruptions
Volcanoes and wildfires can inject millions of tons of gases and aerosol particles into the air, affecting temperatures on...
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A horse’s whinny is unlike any other sound in nature
When a horse whinnies, it is making two sounds simultaneously as no other animal can: a low-pitched noise made...
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Video: Who Is Not Funding This Antarctic Expedition?
Our climate reporter Raymond Zhong describes America’s shifting relationship with polar research amid the threat of rising sea levels.
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Fresh understanding of the causes of migraine reveals new drug targets
We could be on the cusp of a new wave of migraine therapies. Revisiting a neurological pathway that has...
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Rare 2,000-year-old treasure unearthed by metal detectorists in Wales:
Metal detectorists in western Wales found two lead ingots that date back to the Roman...