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Genetics Provide Key to Fight Crown-of-Thorns Starfish

Scientists are one step closer to combatting coral-destroying crown-of-thorns starfish, following a University of Queensland study into the pest’s genetics.

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Young Whale’s Journey Highlights Threats Facing Ocean Animals

A young whale’s journey across the Mediterranean highlights the many threats facing ocean animals, researchers say.

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UC San Diego-Led Science Teams Selected as Finalists for NASA Science Missions to Understand Our Changing Climate

Two teams led by scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography are among four selected by NASA to put forward concept studies for future satellite missions to help better understand how our planet is responding to climate change.

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Meet the New Insect Killing Utah’s Fir Trees

A nonnative tree-killing insect is invading northern Utah, attacking subalpine fir and potentially triggering yet another die-off of the region’s long-stressed conifer forests.

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Understanding How Wildfires Change Soil Could Aid Recovery

Severe wildfires can drive chemical changes in soil that affect ecosystem recovery and risks to human health. 

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Smoke and Fire in British Columbia

Following Canada’s extreme wildland fire season in 2023, unusually early and intense blazes are already raging in 2024. 

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Island Birds More Adaptable Than Previously Thought

Scientists still don’t fully understand the consequences that pollution and climate change can have on the world around us. 

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Last Summer Was the Hottest in More Than 2,000 Years

The summer of 2023 was the hottest summer in the Northern Hemisphere since the height of the Roman Empire, a new study finds.

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Research Explores Ways to Mitigate the Environmental Toxicity of Ubiquitous Silver Nanoparticles

Silver has long been used to thwart the spread of illness and in recent years silver nanoparticles have been incorporated into products ranging from sanitizers, odor-resistant clothes and washing machines to makeup, food packaging and sports equipment.

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Researchers Identify Fastest Rate of Natural Carbon Dioxide Rise Over the Last 50,000 Years

Today’s rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide increase is 10 times faster than at any other point in the past 50,000 years, researchers have found through a detailed chemical analysis of ancient Antarctic ice.

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