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Arctic coasts slipping away

featured Arctic coasts slipping away

Image Credit: © Michel Fritz, Alfred Wagener Institute (Scientist standing in front of coastal erosion at Hershel Island, Yukon Territory, Canada) A quarter of the Arctic's permafrost coastline is suffering...

On by Louise Murray 0 Comments

Damaged coastal wetlands means bad news for our climate

Damaged coastal wetlands means bad news for our climate

Coastal wetlands, which include mangroves, tidal marshes and seagrass meadows, remove carbon from the atmosphere and lock it into the soil. Unlike terrestrial forests, coastal wetlands continually build 'carbon pools',...

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Research casts light on planet's future

Research casts light on planet's future

(Image Credit: Martin Lipman). View of the Canadian Museum of Nature paleontology research camp located in Strathcona Fiord. The study of fossilised mollusks could give scientists an invaluable insight into...

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Cities ill-prepared for climate change dangers

Cities ill-prepared for climate change dangers

The city climate-change sirens have been wailing for some time - from hurricane-blasted New Orleans, to January's flash floods in Rio de Janeiro, to Moscow's choking smog last summer -...

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The world is getting windier

The world is getting windier

The world is getting windier and waves are getting are getting higher, a new study has discovered. Researchers at the Australian National University in Canberra measured global wind speeds across...

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Leaf rot slows after droughts, hindering plant growth

Leaf rot slows after droughts, hindering plant growth

The effects of droughts on trees carry on long after the rains have returned, according fresh research - directed by Jeff Dukes, at Purdue University, Indianapolis - into climate stress...

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Arctic ozone hole moving south

Arctic ozone hole moving south

Unusual atmospheric conditions during the last Arctic winter have opened a massive hole in the ozone layer and that hole is extending into the more densely populated latitudes of northern...

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Patagonia glaciers now melting ten times faster

Patagonia glaciers now melting ten times faster

Their contribution to global sea-level rises may be minuscule, but it is the increase in the rate of melting of the Patagonian that has scientists paying attention. The glaciers flowing...

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