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2026
April
16,
2026
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08:00 AM
America/New_York
Glaciers can reveal vast archives of information about Earth’s environmental past, but deciphering the origins of the matter within them can be a challenge
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April
08,
2026
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08:05 AM
America/New_York
Glaciers in High Mountain Asia — a region encompassing the Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding mountain ranges — are shrinking rapidly, endangering water resources for millions of people, suggests a new study.
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January
21,
2026
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09:23 AM
America/New_York
U.S. forests have stored more carbon in the past two decades than at any time in the last century, an increase attributable to a mix of natural factors and human activity, finds a new study.
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2025
December
17,
2025
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10:15 AM
America/New_York
Trees contain valuable information about Earth’s past, so much so that studying their rings may help fill in hidden gaps in Ohio’s environmental history.
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October
30,
2025
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08:16 AM
America/New_York
Young umbrella acacia trees in Africa survive severe drought by putting their natural processes into overdrive when water is in short supply, prioritizing continued growth over water conservation, new research shows.
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October
27,
2025
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15:01 PM
America/New_York
In a new study, chemists have developed a novel framework for determining how effectively carbon monoxide sticks to the surface of a catalyst during conversion from carbon dioxide.
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October
15,
2025
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09:00 AM
America/New_York
Installing green infrastructure in residential areas can prevent stormwater from flooding sewer systems and significantly curb heavy metal pollution, suggests a new study.
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June
30,
2025
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15:06 PM
America/New_York
As glaciers retreat due to a rise in global temperatures, one study shows detailed 3D elevation models could drastically improve predictions about how they react to Earth’s warming climate.
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June
06,
2025
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09:25 AM
America/New_York
Deep sea sediments contain treasure troves of information about marine ecosystems and past climate scenarios, yet remain understudied clues into Earth’s environmental future, according to researchers.
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April
25,
2025
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11:03 AM
America/New_York
Scientists are working to shed new light on an enduring climate mystery – one that, if solved, could help them make more accurate predictions about the planet’s future.In a new study, data from ice cores collected from Greenland, Antarctica and …
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March
12,
2025
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09:00 AM
America/New_York
Hotter temperatures may render natural insect repellents less effective against mosquitoes, according to a new study.
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January
31,
2025
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13:01 PM
America/New_York
Constructed wetlands do a good job in their early years of capturing carbon in the environment that contributes to climate change – but that ability does diminish with time as the wetlands mature, a new study suggests.
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2024
October
17,
2024
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09:50 AM
America/New_York
A new study gets scientists closer to more fully understanding where viruses fit into the global ocean picture of cycling nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorous and, of particular interest, carbon.
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September
13,
2024
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08:28 AM
America/New_York
Though a founding concept of ecology suggests that the physical environment determines where organisms can survive, modern scientists have suspected there is more to the story of how microbial communities form in the soil.
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September
06,
2024
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09:04 AM
America/New_York
Severe drought in the American Southwest and Mexico and more severe wet years in the Northeast are the modern norm in North America, according to new research – and the analysis suggests these seasonal patterns will be more extreme in the future.
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February
17,
2024
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16:31 PM
America/New_York
Armed with a catalog of hundreds of thousands of DNA and RNA virus species in the world’s oceans, scientists are now zeroing in on the viruses most likely to combat climate change by helping trap carbon dioxide in seawater or, using similar …
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February
16,
2024
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13:00 PM
America/New_York
In a new study, researchers have developed a method for capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, powered by clean and relatively inexpensive geothermal energy.
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2023
November
15,
2023
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08:00 AM
America/New_York
In the first study to examine ice cores from the summit of the highest tropical mountain in the world, new evidence provides unique insight into the climate record of the Amazon Basin over the last six decades.
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September
18,
2023
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09:03 AM
America/New_York
The Ohio State University will lead a new multimillion dollar international center devoted to using artificial intelligence to help understand climate impacts on biodiversity.The AI and Biodiversity Change (ABC) Global Climate Center will bring …
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September
13,
2023
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09:00 AM
America/New_York
A new type of analysis suggests that droughts in Ohio were more severe from 2000 to 2019 than standard measurements have suggested.
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September
01,
2023
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08:06 AM
America/New_York
As global ice dams begin to weaken due to warming temperatures, a new study suggests that prior attempts to evaluate the mass of the huge floating ice shelves that line the Antarctic ice sheet may have overestimated their thickness.
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April
19,
2023
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09:47 AM
America/New_York
As climate change causes ocean temperatures to rise, one of Greenland’s previously most stable glaciers is now retreating at an unprecedented rate, according to a new study.
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January
24,
2023
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09:00 AM
America/New_York
Every year, the United States spends nearly a trillion dollars fighting metallic corrosion, an electrochemical reaction that occurs when metals oxidize and begin to rust.
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January
12,
2023
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11:03 AM
America/New_York
Combining satellite technology with machine learning may allow scientists to better track and prepare for climate-induced natural hazards, according to research presented last month at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union.
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2022
November
14,
2022
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12:15 PM
America/New_York
Researchers from The Ohio State University are using dust trapped in glacier ice in Tibet to document past changes in Earth’s intricate climate system – and maybe one day help predict future changes.
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September
27,
2022
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10:13 AM
America/New_York
Trees have long been known to buffer humans from the worst effects of climate change by pulling carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Now new research shows just how much forests have been bulking up on that excess carbon
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June
23,
2022
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09:00 AM
America/New_York
Climate change is putting an enormous strain on global water resources, and according to researchers, the Tibetan Plateau is suffering from a water imbalance so extreme that it could lead to an increase in international conflicts.
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