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Seagrass is the “ugly duckling of conservation,” Carlos Duarte says. He calculated that the plant may put away carbon at 10 times the rate of a mature rain forest. Duarte sees the project in the Bahamas as…
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It is allergy season once again. If you are one of the 81 million Americans with hay fever, spring is a mixed blessing. Yes, the days are longer, but they are accompanied by itchy eyes, runny noses, and an endless hunt for antihistamines.…
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Even more stunning, it was only in the mid-2010s that Antarctic sea ice was at record highs at least highs since satellite observations began having increased slightly but steadily in the years since 1979. That recent growth of Antarctic…
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There are three forces acting on the debris. First, there's the downward-pulling gravitational force (Fg) due to the interaction with the Earth. This force depends on both the mass (m) of the object and the gravitational field (g = 9.8…
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Hotta found, to his surprise, that a simple sequence of events could, in fact, induce the quantum vacuum to go negative giving up energy it didn’t appear to have. “First I thought I was wrong,” he said, “so I calculated again, and I…
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This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Seabirds evolved about 60 million years ago, as Earth’s continents drifted toward their current positions and modern oceans took shape.…
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