ONGOING OCEAN TEMPERATURE RISE
The rate of ocean warming more than quadrupled over the past four decades and roughly doubled since 2010, partly due[…]
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Month: January 2025
CORAL REEF RESTORATION
Coral reefs can absorb and weaken damaging waves so that when hitting shores, they’re smaller and cause less flooding and[…]
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CORAL REEF CALAMITY
Coral reefs provide essential services to human communities, including fisheries, tourism and coastal protection. Unfortunately, the results of coral bleaching[…]
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FABULOUS FUNGAL BATTERY
A new living 3D-printed fungal battery could supply power to sensors for agriculture or research in remote regions. Once the[…]
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GLACIERS—GOING, GOING, GONE?
91% of glaciers across Svalbard in the Arctic (a region experiencing warming up to seven times faster than the global[…]
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FABULOUS FABRIC
A new wearable fabric can help people survive the impacts of massive heat. It stayed 4.1 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than[…]
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MORE MEGADROUGHTS
Increasingly common since 1980, persistent multi-year droughts will continue to advance with the warming climate. There was a worrying increase[…]
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND CONSTRUCTION
Construction materials like concrete and plastic could lock away billions of tons of carbon dioxide. While bio-based plastics could take[…]
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WILDFIRES COST AND INSURANCE
Estimates indicate Los Angeles wildfires will be the costliest U.S. natural disaster–losses so far between $135 billion and $150 billion.[…]
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IMPROVED BATTERY STORAGE
Phones, devices, and car batteries rely on metals like lithium and cobalt, using intensive, invasive mining so discontinuing metal-based solutions[…]
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