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Marine Ecosystems: No Refuge from the Heat

Dec. 7, 2020 — Over the past several decades, marine protected areas (MPAs) have emerged as a favored conservation tool. By protecting marine species and safeguarding habitat, these reserves help buffer ecosystems ...

The Natural 'Himalayan Aerosol Factory' Can Affect Climate

Dec. 7, 2020 — Large amounts of new particles can form in the valleys of the Himalayas from naturally emitted gases and can be transported to high altitudes by the mountain winds and injected into the upper ...

Peatland Preservation Vital to Climate

Dec. 7, 2020 — Preserving the world's peatlands --- and the vast carbon stores they contain -- is vital to limiting climate change, researchers ...

Newly Discovered Greenland Plume Drives Thermal Activities in the Arctic

Dec. 7, 2020 — A team of researchers understands more about the melting of the Greenland ice sheet. They discovered a flow of hot rocks, known as a mantle plume, rising from the core-mantle boundary beneath central ...

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New Geological Findings from Eastern Fennoscandia Add New Dimensions to the History of European Ice

Dec. 7, 2020 — In Finland, the majority of the glacial and warm interval records have been interpreted to represent only the last, Weichselian, glacial cycle that ...

Central Europe: Dry Aprils Pave the Way for Summer Droughts

Dec. 7, 2020 — In the past 20 years, Central Europe has experienced six summer heat waves and droughts. Until now, however, it was unclear what factors led to these extreme ...

How Plants Compete for Underground Real Estate Affects Climate Change and Food Production

Dec. 3, 2020 — How do plant roots store carbon? Researchers found that the energy a plant devotes to its roots depends on proximity to other plants: when close ...

Study Shows Promising Material Can Store Solar Energy for Months or Years

Dec. 2, 2020 — Researchers studying a crystalline material have discovered it has properties that allow it to capture energy from the sun. The energy can be stored for several months at room temperature, and it can ...

The Climate Changed Rapidly Alongside Sea Ice Decline in the North

Dec. 4, 2020 — Researchers have shown that abrupt climate change occurred as a result of widespread decrease of sea ice. This scientific breakthrough concludes a long-lasting debate on the mechanisms causing abrupt ...

Bacteria in Iron-Deficient Environments Process Carbon Sources Selectively

Dec. 1, 2020 — Looking at a group of bacteria from soil, researchers discovered that these organisms overcome limitation in their carbon processing machinery by rerouting their metabolic pathways to favor producing ...

Robot Fleet Dives for Climate Answers in 'Marine Snow'

Dec. 3, 2020 — Sailing from Hobart, twenty researchers hope to capture the most detailed picture yet of how marine life in the Southern Ocean captures and stores carbon from the ...

Coasts Drown as Coral Reefs Collapse Under Warming and Acidification

Dec. 3, 2020 — The coastal protection coral reefs currently provide will start eroding by the end of the century, as the world continues to warm and the oceans acidify. The rate of erosion of calcium carbonate on ...

Nanomaterials Enable Dual-Mode Heating and Cooling Device

Dec. 2, 2020 — Engineers have demonstrated a dual-mode heating and cooling device for building climate control that, if widely deployed in the U.S., could cut HVAC energy use by nearly 20 percent. The invention ...

Cluster of Alaskan Islands Could Be Single, Interconnected Giant Volcano

Dec. 3, 2020 — A small group of volcanic islands in Alaska's Aleutian chain might be part of a single, undiscovered giant volcano, say scientists. If the researchers' suspicions are correct, the newfound volcanic ...