Environment
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Making sense of a chaotic planet: How understanding weather and climate risks depends on supercomputers like NCAR’s
Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out…
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How Australia’s new fuel efficiency scheme quietly created a carbon currency for cars – and it’s working
Australia’s new fuel efficiency scheme has been in place for just seven months. But the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard has…
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A new space race could turn our atmosphere into a ‘crematorium for satellites’
When we look up at the night sky and see a satellite glide past, we might not consider climate change…
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How natural hydrogen, hiding deep in the Earth, could serve as a new energy source
In the search for more, new and cleaner sources of energy, a largely untapped resource is emerging: natural hydrogen. Unlike…
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Deeper ocean ecosystems are unique – and uniquely vulnerable without better protection
New Zealand’s earlier efforts to safeguard marine or coastal environments, particularly as marine reserves and marine protected areas, typically focused…
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Nanoparticles and artificial intelligence can help researchers detect pollutants in water, soil and blood
Across the U.S., hundreds of sites on land or in lakes and rivers are heavily contaminated with hazardous waste produced…
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Ed Sheeran caught the train to Melbourne to protect the climate. But what about his thousands of fans?
This week, images on social media showed global superstar Ed Sheeran alighting from the overnight train from Sydney into the…
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When feral cats are away, potoroos and bandicoots are more likely to play
All animals need to eat to survive, grow and reproduce. To do so, they also need to avoid being eaten.…
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Punch the monkey isn’t the first lonely zoo animal to capture our hearts – or raise troubling questions
For weeks, the story of Punch the monkey has tugged at heartstrings around the world. Videos of this lonely baby…
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Supreme Court’s Michigan pipeline case is about Native rights and fossil fuels, not just technical legal procedure
What began as a straightforward question from one water-quality advocate has morphed into a high-stakes battle over an oil pipeline…
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Good fungus may one day help save plants from bad fungus like deadly myrtle rust disease
What do coffee, sugar, wheat, soy, eucalypts and paperbarks all have in common? They are all susceptible to parasitic rust…
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Satellite imaging is now vital for disaster management. But there are dangerous gaps in our systems
The extreme weather events and resulting destruction that have hit New Zealand this summer are not only signs of a…
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Severe flooding – in central Australia? How a vast humid air mass could soak the desert
On average, Australia’s driest town, Oodnadatta, gets just 172mm of rain a year. But the small town in inland South…
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Plummeting fish numbers triggered controversial fishing bans in WA. But no-take zones could benefit fishers
The Western Australian government recently announced the controversial closure of commercial and recreation fishing to prevent a collapse in the…
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Tahoe avalanche: What causes snow slopes to collapse? A physicist and skier explains, with tips for surviving
A deadly avalanche buried a group of backcountry skiers and guides near Lake Tahoe in California’s Sierra Nevada as an…
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