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Climate change could trigger tropical evacuations, researchers advise

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The map above, contained in the Hsiang-Sobel paper, reflects a logarithm calculating the minimum distance an organism must travel to maintain the average temperature...

Greenland sets melt records in 2015 consistent with ‘Arctic amplification’

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Study recorded record melts in Greenland. Credit: Professor Edward Hanna of the University of Sheffield Following record-high temperatures and melting records that affected northwest Greenland...

Rainfall following drought linked to historic nitrate levels in Midwest streams...

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A small stream flows through corn fields in northern Indiana. A new USGS report shows that drought periods followed by rainfall caused nitrate levels...

Pandas don’t like it hot: Temperature, not food is biggest concern...

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A giant panda perched in a tree.Credit: Photo by Zhang Zhihe. Although a new Drexel study found that the metabolism of giant pandas is higher...

Greening Arctic: Impact of climate change in high latitudes

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Using 29 years of data from Landsat satellites, researchers at NASA have found extensive greening in the vegetation across Alaska and Canada. Rapidly increasing...

Slowing of landslide flows reflects California’s drying climate

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Photo captures one of the California landslide sites studied by the UO's Georgie Bennett and Joshua Roering. The research team they led found that...

Antarctic coastline images reveal 4 decades of ice loss to ocean

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This image shows part of the coastline along the Bellinghausen Sea in West Antarctica, where satellite data has revealed four decades of ice loss...

Hydrothermal vents, methane seeps play enormous role in marine life, global...

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A lush community of vibrant red tube worms grows on a black smoker chimney in the ASHES hydrothermal field. The tube worms, which are...

Deep, old water explains why Antarctic Ocean hasn’t warmed

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Observed warming over the past 50 years (in degrees Celsius per decade) shows rapid warming in the Arctic, while the Southern Ocean around Antarctica...

A history of snowfall on Greenland, hidden in ancient leaf waxes

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A new study uses aquatic leaf waxes to study the history of precipitation at this lake in western Greenland. Credit: Jason Briner The history of Greenland's...

Scientists predict extensive ice loss from huge Antarctic glacier

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This is a picture of the Totten Glacier front. Credit: Esmee van Wijk/Australian Antarctic Division Current rates of climate change could trigger instability in a...