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Past records help to predict different effects of future climate change on land and sea
Ongoing climate change driven by greenhouse gas emissions is often discussed in terms of global average warming. For example, the...
Plastic debris in the Arctic comes from all around the world
"Citizen Science" gives interested citizens the chance to actively engage in scientific research. A citizen-science project conducted by AWI in...
Climate Change and Its Impact on Earthquakes
?Climate Change Causing Earthquakes Climate change is known to lead to various natural disasters, such as extreme weather, floods, landslides,...
Newly discovered green comet comes close to Earth
A newly discovered comet will make its closest approach to our planet on Wednesday Astronomers say the object's journey toward...
Recycling rare earth elements is hard. Science is trying to make it easier
Our modern lives depend on rare earth elements, and someday soon we may not have enough to meet growing demand...
Seawater split to produce ‘green’ hydrogen
The international team was led by the University of Adelaide's Professor Shizhang Qiao and Associate Professor Yao Zheng from the...
With rapidly increasing heat and drought, can plants adapt
At a time when climate change is making many areas of the planet hotter and drier, it's sobering to think...
AI: World likely to hit key warming threshold in 10-12 years
The world will likely breach the internationally agreed-upon climate change threshold in about a decade, and keep heating to break...
A fairy-like robot flies by the power of wind and light
The development of stimuli-responsive polymers has brought about a wealth of material-related opportunities for next-generation small-scale, wirelessly controlled soft-bodied robots....
New species of microalgae discovered
A new species of microalgae was found in water from a home aquarium. While analyzing DNA samples taken from the...