As people are fully vaccinated, pre-pandemic travel patterns are slowly returning.
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As global travel resumes, now is the perfect time to establish new conversations for what ethical travel might look like.
As cities have opened up after lockdown, people are finding themselves stuck in traffic jams
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We are at a tipping point between high-carbon transport and a new world of fewer cars and more walking and cycling.
Ocean waters are now warmer, more acidic and hold less oxygen. They’re also stressed from overfishing and pollution.
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As the climate changes, the ocean is also changing. And that’s putting our health at risk.
Assisted migration may be a solution to climate-driven population damage.
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Climate change is even worse than we expected - so is now the time for conservationists to take extreme measures to stem the extinction crisis?
Oil and gas extraction can have dire consequences for the countries in which it takes place.
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Colonialism, political turmoil and unmet citizen promises all lie behind the rise of attacks on foreign-run fossil fuel plants in Mozambique.
The NOAA ship Okeanos Explorer used multibeam sonar to map the sharp Pao Pao seamount (right) and a flat-topped guyot (left) in New Zealand’s waters.
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An accurate seafloor map can improve oceanographic and climate models, secure marine navigation, inform defence operations, and guide environmental decisions.
Sharks’ teeth carry clues about the oceans they swam in.
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These giant predators are helping solve the mystery of Earth’s cooling shift some 50 million years ago.
Record-breaking triple-digit heat in Olympia, Wash., on June 28, 2021.
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Which is worse, dry heat or wet heat? Both, says an exercise physiologist.
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Rain near Japan triggered a heat wave in North America. To know our future, we have a lot to learn about what drives extreme weather.
Two new NASA missions hope to answer important questions about Venus’ past.
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Two new NASA missions – VERITAS and DAVINCI+ – are headed to Venus. The missions will use radar and a probe to learn about Earth’s hard-to-study and potentially prophetic neighbor.
With the evidence uncovered by paleontologists, an artist sketched El Bosque Petrificado Piedra Chamana as it might have looked long before humans.
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Using remnants of fossilized trees, scientists and an artist figured out what the forest looked like long before humans existed.
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‘Thirsty air’ can create rapid and devastating drought – new research offers hope we might be able to see it coming in advance.
The point of divestment is to send a negative message, to undermine the oil industry’s social licence.
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As public funding disappears, corporations have moved to the head of the table of higher education.
Sunrise in Stone Harbor, New Jersey.
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The US is shifting to a new set of climate ‘normals’ – data sets averaged over the past 30 years. But normal is a relative concept in a time of climate change.
The California Aqueduct, which carries water more than 400 miles south from the Sierra Nevada, splits as it enters Southern California at the border of Kern and Los Angeles counties.
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Installing solar panels over California’s 4,000 miles of canals could generate less expensive, renewable energy, save water, fight climate change – and offer a solution for the thirsty American West.
Conflicts between nomadic livestock farmers and crop farmers are common in Ghana.
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Institutional problems make it difficult to satisfy livestock and crop farmers’ interests, already in contest over agricultural resources.
The possibility of accurate predictions will aid planning adaptation for severe weather conditions
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With research that offers new insights, there is increased hope for improved climate predictions and better preparation for severe weather conditions.
Permafrost is thawing across the Arctic, releasing microbes and organic materials that have been trapped in the frozen ground for thousands of years.
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New research shows that permafrost contains huge amounts of particles that make it easier for cloud moisture to freeze. Thawing permafrost is releasing these ice-nucleating particles.
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Food farmed in tropical and Mediterranean climates comes at a higher cost to biodiversity than that grown elsewhere.
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A new measure of average weather days in New Zealand puts the temperature on the rise, again.