#Sudan floods kill over 100, threaten archaeological site

“#Sudan floods kill over 100, threaten archaeological site” This April 16, 2015 file photo, shows a general view of the historic Meroe pyramids site, in al-Bagrawiya, 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Khartoum, Sudan. A leading archaeologist says the floodwaters have already entered the ancient royal city of the Kushite kings known as the Island…

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#Dangerous bacteria is showing up in school water systems

“#Dangerous bacteria is showing up in school water systems” As schools cautiously reopen for the fall semester, several have discovered potentially harmful bacteria in their water systems. Parents are likely concerned about what this means for their children, and other districts may be checking their own water’s safety. As researchers who investigate water quality in…

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#Where modeling meets observations: Improving the Great Lakes operational forecast system

“#Where modeling meets observations: Improving the Great Lakes operational forecast system” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Though the Great Lakes are called lakes, because of their sheer size, they are truly inland seas. They affect regional weather patterns, provide drinking water to millions of people and drive the economies of several states. Forecasting the water levels,…

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#Face-to-face astronomy conference consumes 3,000 times more carbon dioxide than online conference

“#Face-to-face astronomy conference consumes 3,000 times more carbon dioxide than online conference” Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Leiden astronomers have published two articles on more sustainable astronomy in a special section of the journal Nature Astronomy. Among other things, they calculate that their online conference EAS 2020 consumed 3,000 times less carbon dioxide than the face-to-face…

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#Reducing, reusing and recycling mining waste

“#Reducing, reusing and recycling mining waste” Two approaches using existing low cost and low energy technologies to accelerate carbonation have demonstrated significant carbon capture over a very short period and the formation of carbonate minerals. A paper published by a large international collaboration led by Monash University in Economic Geology describes laboratory experiments to evaluate…

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#In the Amazon, forest degradation is outpacing full deforestation

“#In the Amazon, forest degradation is outpacing full deforestation” Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has increased abruptly in the past two years, after having been on a downward trajectory for more than a decade. With the country’s president Jair Bolsonaro notoriously enthusiastic about expanding into the rainforest, new deforestation data regularly makes global headlines. But what…

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#Why are Brazil’s wetlands engulfed in flames?

“#Why are Brazil’s wetlands engulfed in flames?” The carcass of an alligator killed during a fire in the Pantanal wetlands, Mato Grosso State, Brazil, on August 27, 2020, picture in a handout image released by Projeto Solos on September 9 .Fires raging in the Pantanal, the biggest tropical wetlands on Earth, are threatening a nature…

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