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Warming Arctic Reduces Dust Levels in Parts of the Planet

Climate change is a global phenomenon, but its impacts are felt at a very local level.

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Genetic Hope in Fight Against Devastating Wheat Disease

Fungal disease Fusarium head blight (FHB) is on the rise due to increasingly humid conditions induced by climate change during the wheat growing season, but a fundamental discovery by University of Adelaide researchers could help reduce its economic harm.

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Deer Are Expanding North, and That’s Not Good for Caribou

As the climate changes, animals are doing what they can to adapt.

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Remote Sensing Technique Captures Details of Hurricane Ian’s Aftermath

Category 4 Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida’s Lee County on Sept. 28, 2022, battering the region with wind speeds of 155 miles per hour and storm surge up to 13 feet – the highest storm surge documented in Southwest Florida in the past 150 years.

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Air Pollution and Depression Linked With Heart Disease Deaths in Middle-Aged Adults

A study in more than 3,000 US counties, with 315 million residents, has suggested that air pollution is linked with stress and depression, putting under-65-year-olds at increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease. 

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How Do Birds Flock? Researchers Do the Math to Reveal Previously Unknown Aerodynamic Phenomenon

In looking up at the sky during these early weeks of spring, you may very well see a flock of birds moving in unison as they migrate north. 

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Can Climate Change Accelerate Transmission of Malaria? Pioneering Research Sheds Light on Impacts of Temperature

Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease caused by a parasite that spreads from bites of infected female Anopheles mosquitoes. 

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Managing Meandering Waterways in a Changing World

Just as water moves through a river, rivers themselves move across the landscape. 

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Scientists Are Trying to Coax the Ocean to Absorb More CO2

Last May in Grundartangi, a small port in western Iceland, a barge piled high with wood chips began making regular trips to a patch of ocean 190 miles from the coast.

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Climate Change Intensified 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Wave, Study Finds

Climate change made the disastrous 2021 heat wave in the Pacific Northwest larger and longer-lasting than it would have been otherwise, a new study finds.

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