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Oldest Extant Plant Has Adapted to Extremes and Is Threatened by Climate Change

A comprehensive study led by scientists from Freiburg and Beijing has characterized the adaptations of the moss Takakia to high altitudes and documented its population decline.

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Measuring the Extent of Global Droughts in Unprecedented Detail

Researchers from the University of Bonn are re-analyzing satellite data to calculate global water distribution.

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Carbon Dioxide – Not Water – Triggers Explosive Volcanoes

Geoscientists have long thought that water – along with shallow magma stored in Earth’s crust – drives volcanoes to erupt. 

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NASA Data Shows Fierce Surface Temperatures During Phoenix Heat Wave

Streets and other built surfaces in the region absorbed and retained heat long after sunset and grew hotter over many days of persistent high temperatures.

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Nitrogen Runoff Strategies Complicated by Climate Change

As climate change progresses, rising temperatures may impact nitrogen runoff from land to lakes and streams more than projected increases in total and extreme precipitation for most of the continental United States, according to new research from a team of Carnegie climate scientists led by Gang Zhao and Anna Michalak published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Pause in Recent Coral Recovery on Much of Great Barrier Reef

In-water monitoring by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) shows hard coral cover across the Great Barrier Reef remains at similar levels to that recorded in 2022, with small decreases in the Northern, Central and Southern regions.

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NASA Helps Spot Wine Grape Disease From Skies Above California

In a case study, scientists detected the costly infection in cabernet sauvignon grapevines before they showed symptoms visible to the human eye.

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In the Treetops: USU Ecology Doctoral Student Studies Canopy Soil Abundance, Chemistry

When we think of soil, most of us think of dirt on the ground. 

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The History and Future of Ancient Einkorn Wheat Is Written in Its Genes

An international team of researchers led by UMD scientists have sequenced the complete genome for einkorn wheat, the world’s first domesticated crop and traced its evolutionary history. 

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Cal Poly Study Analyzes Nearshore California Marine Heat Waves and Cold Spells Amid Changing Climate Conditions

Cal Poly student and faculty researchers, in conjunction with a team on the East Coast, are exploring how climate change is impacting extreme ocean temperatures off California’s Central Coast.

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