Changes in polynya area in the Ross Sea region off Antarctica follow a previously unidentified 16-year periodicity.
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The Crocodile Dundee Site Helping Rewrite the History of Australian Bushfires
A lake made famous by Hollywood has yielded powerful new evidence that humans have conducted controlled burns on the Red Continent for tens of thousands of years.
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Warming Experiment Explores Consequences of Diminished Snow
The SPRUCE ecosystem in northern Minnesota offered a setting to research exactly how a snowy environment responds to rising temperatures.
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La química del agua somera podría hacer a los arrecifes más resistente a la acidificación del océano
Estudios de los Cayos de Florida revelan variaciones geográficas y temporales en los efectos de la acidificación en corales.
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Scientists Quantify Blue Carbon in Bahamas Seagrass
The island nation’s underwater fields store huge reserves of carbon, though not as much as scientists thought.
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Los países más pobres enfrentan consecuencias más graves del cambio climático
A medida que los bosques se desplazan hacia latitudes más altas, las naciones enfrentan pérdidas tanto de beneficios ecosistémicos de mercado como no mercantiles.
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The Open Ocean, Aerosols, and Every Other Breath You Take
Phytoplankton and other marine plants produce half of Earth’s atmospheric oxygen and have big effects on food webs and climate. To do so, they rely on nutrients from the sky that are hard to quantify.
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The Best Way to Kill Trees to Create Habitat
Standing dead trees—or snags—shelter animals, store carbon, and cycle nutrients. A long-term monitoring study found that lopping off a tree’s top branches is a good way to turn it into a snag within about 20 years.
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Anzali Wetland, Iran’s “Ecological Gem,” May Dry Up by 2060
More sustainable watershed management and agriculture are needed to avoid a desiccated fate.