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Global Study Reveals Health Impacts of Airborne Trace Elements

Researchers led by Randall Martin investigate global particulate matter, revealing health risks from trace elements.

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East Coast Mussel Shells Are Becoming More Porous in Warming Waters

Researchers at the American Museum of Natural History have found that over the last 120 years, the porosity—or small-scale holes—in mussel shells along the East Coast of the United States has increased, potentially due to warming waters. 

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Honey Bees Experience Multiple Health Stressors Out-In-The-Field

It’s not a single pesticide or virus stressing honey bees, and affecting their health, but exposure to a complex web of multiple interacting stressors encountered while at work pollinating crops, found new research out of York University.

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How Blue-Green Algae Manipulate Microorganisms

Cyanobacteria – also called blue-green algae – are known as the “plants of the ocean” because they carry out photosynthesis on a gigantic scale, produce oxygen and extract the greenhouse gas CO2 from the environment. 

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More Progress Needed on Ocean Protection, Oregon State Scientists Tell Global Conference

World governments and other leadership bodies are taking vital steps to protect the ocean but more progress is urgently needed, Oregon State University scientists reported today at the eighth Our Ocean Conference in Athens.

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Warming of Antarctic Deep-Sea Waters Contribute to Sea Level Rise in North Atlantic, Study Finds

A new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience led by scientists at University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, found that human-induced environmental changes around Antarctica are contributing to sea level rise in the North Atlantic.

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Surprising Reversal in Quantum Systems

In principle, one shouldn’t compare apples to oranges. However, in topology, which is a branch of mathematics, one has to do just that.

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Weather Prediction Models can Also Forecast Satellite Displacements

Researchers at the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR) at the University of Helsinki have found that modern weather models can accurately predict the energy that Earth emits and reflects into space, which directly affects the movements of low Earth-orbiting (LEO) satellites.

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Clearing the Air: Wind Farms More Land Efficient Than Previously Thought

Wind power is a source of energy that is both affordable and renewable.

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Coal Train Pollution Increases Health Risks and Disparities

Trains carrying loads of coal bring with them higher rates of asthma, heart disease, hospitalization and death for residents living nearest the rail lines, according to a new study from the University of California, Davis.

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