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Augmenting citizen science with computer vision for fish monitoring
Each spring, river herring populations migrate from Massachusetts coastal waters to begin their annual journey up rivers and...
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Soaring gas prices and disrupted supply chains will ripple out to increase costs in every store and sector of the economy
The disruptions from the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran spread quickly to commercial aircraft, shipping lanes and the world’s energy supply. Those repercussions have already hit fuel costs, including for motorists, truckers and fishermen,...
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2026’s historic snow drought brings worries about water, wildfires and the future in the West
Across much of the Western United States, winter 2026 was the year the snow never came. Many ski resorts got by with snowmaking but shut down their winter operations early. Fire officials and water supply...
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Large heath butterflies are ‘canary in coal mine for climate change’
Could counting endangered large heath butterflies be used as an indicator of peatland health?
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A complicated future for a methane-cleansing molecule
Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas that is second only to carbon dioxide in driving up global...
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Investigating Antarctic ice shelf melting with global navigation satellite systems
Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), which include GPS, are traditionally used for positioning, timing, and mapping information....
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3 Questions: Communicating about climate, in audio and beyond
Since her first journalism fellowship covering energy and the environment at the NPR station in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,...
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The simple questions cracking the hard problem of consciousness
A few years ago, I took a zombie test. I had flown to Madison, Wisconsin, to visit neuroscientist Giulio...
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Why Colorado River negotiations stalled, and how they could resume with the possibility of agreement
The seven U.S. states that make up the Colorado River basin are struggling to agree on how best to manage the river’s water as its supply dwindles due to climate change and a period of...
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Jonathan the tortoise, world’s oldest known land animal, dies aged 193
The vet who cared for the giant tortoise said he had left behind a "legacy of resilience and longevity".
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