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Mashup Score: 16As the lakes that flamingos inhabit expand, the birds’ food supplies are rapidly shrinking - 24 day(s) ago
As soda lakes grow, they may become too dilute in nutrients and food to sustain the iconic pink birds
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Mashup Score: 2A natural touch for coastal defense - 26 day(s) ago
Common “hard” coastal defenses, like concrete sea walls, might struggle to keep up with increasing climate risks. A new study shows that combining them with nature-based solutions could, in some contexts, create defenses which are better able to adapt. Researchers reviewed 304 academic articles on the performance of coastal defenses around the world, including: natural environments; soft measures (which support or enrich nature); hard measures (such as concrete sea walls); and hybrids of the aforementioned. Soft and hybrid measures turned out to be more cost-effective than hard measures, and hybrid measures provided the highest hazard reduction overall in low-risk areas. Although their comparative performance during extreme events that pose a high risk is not clear due to lack of data, these results still support the careful inclusion of nature-based solutions to help protect, support and enrich coastal communities.
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Mashup Score: 150Quantifying methane emissions from United States landfills - 1 month(s) ago
Landfills across the United States emit substantial amounts of methane.
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Mashup Score: 126Quantifying methane emissions from United States landfills - 1 month(s) ago
Landfills across the United States emit substantial amounts of methane.
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Mashup Score: 0New UM study reveals unintended consequences of fire suppression - 1 month(s) ago
A new study from the University of Montana reveals how fire suppression ensures that wildfires will burn under extreme conditions at high severity, exacerbating the impacts of climate change and fuel accumulation.
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Though matters of climate change, biodiversity loss and Indigenous Peoples’ health and well-being are often considered separately, the three are linked in innumerable ways.
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Mashup Score: 13The Gerontologist - 2 month(s) ago
An official journal of the Gerontological Society of America. Provides a multidisciplinary perspective on human aging through the publication of research and analysis in gerontology, including social policy, program development, and service delivery.
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Mashup Score: 8The atlas of unburnable oil in the world - 2 month(s) ago
In order to limit the increase in global average temperature to 1.5°C, it is essential to drastically reduce carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions in the atmosphere. This would mean not exploiting most of the existing coal, conventional gas and oil energy resources in regions around the world, according to research led by the University of Barcelona and published in the journal Nature Communications. The new article presents the atlas of unburnable oil in the world, a world map designed with environmental and social criteria that warns which oil resources should not be exploited to meet the commitments of the Paris Agreement signed in 2015 to mitigate the effects of climate change.
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Studying root function in tropical forests could improve predictions of climate change. Research led by Colorado State University has contributed to a better understanding of how carbon storage and belowground dynamics will respond to global change. An international group of scientists called TropiRoot, led by CSU Associate Professor Daniela Cusack, has been working to provide much needed representation of tropical forests and root function in vegetation models.
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Mashup Score: 10Hazardous heat and humidity is widespread in US jails and prisons, and climate change is worsening conditions - 2 month(s) ago
An estimated 1.8 million incarcerated people in the United States have been recently exposed to a dangerous combination of heat and humidity, and on average experience 100 days of these conditions each …
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Every year, millions of lesser flamingos flock to a few small soda lakes in East Africa. But the bright pink birds’ numbers are falling sharply, a decline researchers have now linked to a paradoxical effect of #ClimateChange. https://t.co/vcVfEm0yjq