What do Venice, Jakarta, Manilla and Bangkok have in common? They are or were sinking cities. Wageningen researcher Philip Minderhoud studies the causes of subsidence in these cities. Groundwater extraction plays an important ...
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There is a high risk of increased metal emissions from coastal areas in the future. In a new model published in Limnology and Oceanography Letters, researchers from the University of Gothenburg show that climate change and ...
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Sep 19, 2024
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A hundred years ago, fish lived longer and grew bigger—they continued to breed, engineered ecosystems through predation and were more resilient to ocean changes such as marine heat waves.
Ecology
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Sitting by their ruined home, Abu Ibrahim wept for his son and seven grandchildren killed by flash floods in Yemen, where increasingly severe downpours are piling more misery on the impoverished, war-torn country.
Environment
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A new study from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering researchers, along with researchers from the Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris at the University of Paris Cité, has found that the increase in soil erosion in ...
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Idowu (Jola) Ajibade grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, a low-lying city built around a lagoon bordered by the Atlantic Ocean. Flooding is a routine occurrence during the rainy season.
Environment
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July 22, 2024 was the hottest day in recorded human history, with a global average temperature of 17.16 C.
Environment
Sep 4, 2024
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One woman has died, schools have been shuttered and tens of thousands of people were without power Monday, as wild storms lashed Australia.
Environment
Sep 2, 2024
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New research from Northwestern University has systematically proven that a mild zap of electricity can strengthen a marine coastline for generations—greatly reducing the threat of erosion in the face of climate change and ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 22, 2024
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Researchers at Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen and Kobe University discovered populations of female brown algae that reproduce from unfertilized gametes and thrive without males. In a study published in Nature ...
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