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#A rush is on to mine the deep seabed, with effects on ocean life that aren’t well understood

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“#A rush is on to mine the deep seabed, with effects on ocean life that aren’t well understood” by Elizabeth M. De Santo, Elizabeth Mendenhall and Elizabeth Nyman, The Conversation </p><div> <div> <div data-src=”https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2020/arushisontom.jpg” data-sub-html=”Manganese nodules on the Atlantic Ocean floor off the southeastern United States, discovered in 2019 during the Deep Sea Ventures pilot…

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#Widespread electric vehicle adoption would save billions of dollars, thousands of lives

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“#Widespread electric vehicle adoption would save billions of dollars, thousands of lives” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Northwestern University researchers have combined climate modeling with public health data to evaluate the impact of electric vehicles (EVs) on U.S. lives and the economy. A new study found that if EVs replaced 25% of combustion-engine cars currently on…

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#NASA sees former Tropical Storm Josephine open into a trough

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“#NASA sees former Tropical Storm Josephine open into a trough” NASA’s Terra satellite provided a visible image to forecasters of Josephine on Aug. 16 at 1:30 p.m. EDT that showed the storm had weakened to a trough of low pressure. Image Courtesy: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS). Tropical Storm Josephine…

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#New model for pricing carbon will help meet net-zero climate change goals

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“#New model for pricing carbon will help meet net-zero climate change goals” Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain An article released today by researchers at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy in the journal Nature Climate Change introduces a new approach for pricing carbon—Near-term to Net Zero. As policymakers and advocates increasingly focus on net-zero emissions…

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#Scientists improve accuracy of lost wetland dataset in China side of Amur River Basin

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“#Scientists improve accuracy of lost wetland dataset in China side of Amur River Basin” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The floodplains in the Amur River Basin create a corridor of wetlands, without which millions of migratory waterfowls could not reach their breeding grounds on the tundra at the Arctic shores. The China side of the Amur…

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#Australia’s move to store carbon in soil is a problem for tackling climate change

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“#Australia’s move to store carbon in soil is a problem for tackling climate change” Credit: Shutterstock To slow climate change, humanity has two main options: reduce greenhouse gas emissions directly or find ways to remove them from the atmosphere. On the latter, storing carbon in soil—or carbon farming—is often touted as a promising way to…

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#Some surprises about the degradation of microplastics in our oceans

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“#Some surprises about the degradation of microplastics in our oceans” Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Not all the news about plastic in the ocean is what we expect. In fact it may be not quite as bad as initially thought. This comes as welcome information as we are celebrating National Science Week with an oceans theme….

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#Climate stabilization: Lessons from the pandemic

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“#Climate stabilization: Lessons from the pandemic” The pandemic has shown that when reaction time is kept to a minimum, a larger public health crisis can be averted.” Credit: Davyn Ben/Unsplash The dynamics of the current COVID-19 pandemic could offer valuable insights for the efforts to mitigate climate change. Highlighting the parallels between the global health…

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#Ocean microbes could interact with pollution to influence climate

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“#Ocean microbes could interact with pollution to influence climate” A 108-foot-long “ocean-in-a-lab” reveals how sea spray aerosols could interact with pollutants to influence climate. Credit: Erik Jepsen (University of California San Diego) Oceans cover almost three-quarters of the globe, yet little is known about how gases and aerosols made by ocean microbes affect weather and…

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#Effects of nutrient pollution in marine ecosystems are compounded by human activity

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“#Effects of nutrient pollution in marine ecosystems are compounded by human activity” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Excessive nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, have devastating effects on coastal marine ecosystems by causing algal blooms that deplete oxygen in the water, killing marine life. Such nutrients can enter the sea in wastewater or run-off from agricultural…