Rebound effects make car sharing and second-hand phones not as green as they seem
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Fossil fuels aren’t the biggest source of surging methane emissions
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Botanists identify thirty-three global ‘dark spots’ with thousands of unknown plants
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Charging lithium-ion batteries at high currents just before they leave the factory is thirty times faster and increases battery lifespans by 50%, according to study
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Painting one turbine blade black has shown promise for preventing bird collisions
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What works: Groundbreaking evaluation of climate policy measures over two decades
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Iceland's recent volcanic eruptions driven by pooling magma are set to last centuries into the future
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Trees reveal climate surprise: Microbes living in bark remove methane from the atmosphere
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With CO2 levels rising, world’s drylands are turning green
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The timing of fireworks-caused wildfire ignitions during the 4th of July holiday season
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Hay grown for cattle consumes nearly half the water drawn from Colorado River, study finds
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Climate engineering off US coast could increase heatwaves in Europe, study finds
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A rare burst of billions of cicadas will rewire our ecosystems for years to come. The arrival of Brood XIX and Brood XIII will send shockwaves through forest food webs.
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'Absolute miracle' breakthrough provides recipe for zero-carbon cement
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Carbon pricing works, meta-review finds
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Landmark study definitively shows that conservation actions are effective at halting and reversing biodiversity loss
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‘I’m a blue whale, I’m here’: researchers listen with delight to songs that hint at Antarctic resurgence
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Sweden has vast old growth forests – but they are being chopped down faster than the Amazon
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Melt rate of Greenland ice sheet can predict summer weather in Europe – location, extent and strength of recent freshwater events suggest unusually warm and dry summer
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Beyond the water flow rate: Water pressure and smart timers impact shower efficiency
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EU countries already hitting some of their sustainable energy targets for 2030 – Study finds ‘systematic progress’ achieved in 2010s with some states reaching targets a decade early
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'Cliff-like' collapse of critical current system more likely than thought: study
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Atlantic Ocean circulation nearing ‘devastating’ tipping point, study finds
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Hungry sea otters play a role in coastline protection
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A shift towards a more sustainable global food system could create up to $10 trillion of benefits a year, improve human health, and ease the climate crisis
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French wild pansies are producing smaller flowers and less nectar than twenty to thirty years ago, study shows
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Floral time travel: Flowers were more diverse 100 million years ago than they are today
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Since 1978 ice shelves in North Greenland have lost more than 35% of their total volume, with three of them collapsing completely
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The world has already crossed a ‘tipping point’ [of the good kind] on solar power
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Green hydrogen could reach economic viability through the co-production of valuable chemicals
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Feeding seaweed to cows can cut methane emissions – Swedish study proposes government commission more research into environmental benefits of cattle feed additives
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PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ harming wildlife the world over: Study
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Status of the forest carbon offset markets in the United States
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Human alteration of the global floodplains 1992-2019
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Study shows some Swiss residents changed behavior in response to Fridays for Future youth protests inspired by Greta Thunberg
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Study: Air pollution prevents pollinators from finding flowers
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Melbourne plant diversity in urban green spaces led to sevenfold increase in insect species, study finds
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How wealthy "super emitters" in the US are disproportionately driving the climate crisis — while blaming you
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New simulation based study warns against risks of ‘time-traveling pathogens’ in thawing Arctic permafrost
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Removing carbon from Earth's atmosphere may not 'fix' climate change
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Expert reaction to a paper warning of a collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
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Even if the planet doesn't get any warmer than it is now, melting ice in Greenland could add at least 1.5 metres to the global average sea level
33 votes -
Analysis of thirty long-running farm trials shows crop choice and manure addition can sustain high yields at low fertilizer rates
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Study says drinking water from nearly half of US faucets contains potentially harmful chemicals
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Humans have used enough groundwater to shift Earth’s tilt
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Gas and propane combustion from stoves emits benzene and increases indoor air pollution
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Rock flour produced by the grinding under Greenland's glaciers can trap climate-heating carbon dioxide when spread on farm fields
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Daily tides stoked with increasingly warmer water ate a huge hole at the bottom of one of Greenland's major glaciers in the last couple of years
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Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are now losing more than three times as much ice a year as they were thirty years ago
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The Greenland Ice Sheet is close to a melting point of no return, says new study
5 votes