While our planet’s average annual temperature has increased at a steady pace in recent decades, there has been an alarming jump in the severity of the hottest days of the …read more Source:: Science
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First global atlas of the bacteria living in your dirt
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•What lives in your dirt? Researchers are one step closer to finding out after compiling the first global atlas of soil bacterial communities and identifying a group of around 500 …read more Source:: Science
Severe obesity linked to newly identified gene mutations
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•Researchers have discovered mutations in a gene related to obesity, offering new treatment possibilities in the fight against the global epidemic. …read more Source:: Science
The ocean is losing its breath — here’s the global scope
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•In the past 50 years, the amount of water in the open ocean with zero oxygen has gone up more than fourfold. In coastal water bodies, including estuaries and seas, …read more Source:: Science
Political instability and weak governance lead to loss of species, study finds
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•Big data study of global biodiversity shows ineffective national governance is a better indicator of species decline than any other measure of ‘anthropogenic impact.’ Even protected conservation areas make little …read more Source:: Science
Laws of attraction: Pollinators use multiple cues to identify flowers across continents
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•Although at least 75 percent of our crop species depend on animal pollinators, little is known about their flower preferences. As global insect populations decline, it is of utmost importance …read more Source:: Science
Life goes on for marine ecosystems after cataclysmic mass extinction
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•One of the largest global mass extinctions did not fundamentally change marine ecosystems, scientists have found. …read more Source:: Science
Study reshapes understanding of climate change’s impact on early societies
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•A new study linking paleoclimatology — the reconstruction of past global climates — with historical analysis shows a link between environmental stress and its impact on the economy, political stability, …read more Source:: Science
Large volcanic eruptions in Tropics can trigger El Niño events
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•Explosive volcanic eruptions in the tropics can lead to El Niño events, those notorious warming periods in the Pacific Ocean with dramatic global impacts on the climate, according to a …read more Source:: Science
Human-made aerosols identified as driver in shifting global rainfall patterns
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•Scientists found that aerosol particles released into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels are a primary driver of changes in rainfall patterns across the globe. …read more Source:: Science