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Millions at risk as Myanmar wells surpass WHO arsenic guidelines

Twelve million people in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady Delta face serious long-term health risks from the harmful substance, arsenic, in their drinking water.This post was originally published on this site

Without US satellites, ‘we go dark’, tells climate monitor

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US budget cuts risk creating blind spots in Earth monitoring systems that would imperil weather forecasting and climate research for years to come, the deputy chair of a key UN-backed climate monitoring body warned in […]

Team studies beryllium-7 variations over Antarctic regions of the Southern Ocean

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Beryllium-7 is a radioactive isotope of beryllium produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere. A Japanese research team has explored, over space and time, how the beryllium-7 is transported from the atmosphere to Earth’s surface. […]

Why mysterious structures within Earth’s mantle hold clues to life here

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For decades, scientists have been baffled by two enormous, enigmatic structures buried deep inside Earth with features so vast and unusual that they defy conventional models of planetary evolution.This post was originally published on this […]

A new way for coastal planners to explore the costs of rising seas

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Water levels are creeping upward on shorelines across the world, and decision-making systems are not keeping up. One barrier to including sea level rise projections in adaptation plans is limited information on the full range […]

Monitoring hidden processes beneath Kīlauea could aid eruption forecast

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The massive 2018 eruption of Kīlauea Volcano on Hawai’i Island lasted for months, destroyed neighborhoods, and was associated with 60,000 earthquakes.This post was originally published on this site

Andes glaciers will fail to buffer megadroughts by century’s end, study suggests

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In light of the ongoing fifteen-year megadrought in Chile, an international team of researchers, including Francesca Pellicciotti from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), addressed a bold future scenario. Their findings: by the […]

Antarctic ice loss linked to ‘storms’ at ocean’s subsurface

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Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have identified stormlike circulation patterns beneath the Antarctic ice shelves that are causing aggressive melting, with major implications for global sea level rise […]

Weather behind past heat waves could return far deadlier

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The weather patterns that produced some of Europe’s most extreme heat waves over the past three decades could prove far more lethal if they strike in today’s hotter climate, pushing weekly deaths toward levels seen […]

Early Triassic sediments reveal Earth’s hidden wildfire past

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An international team of scientists, including a senior researcher at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, has uncovered new evidence of ancient wildfires that reshapes our understanding of Earth’s turbulent Early Triassic epoch, about 250 million […]

Retail rents decrease when a marijuana dispensary moves in

As more states open the doors to legal marijuana, dispensaries are becoming a more common retail sighting. But what happens to the businesses next door when one opens for business?This post was originally published on [...]
Too much or too little AI adoption may lower workers’ job satisfaction

In research based on 2009–2020 data from 509 publicly listed US firms, lower and higher levels of adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) were associated with reduced job satisfaction, whereas moderate levels were linked to greater [...]
New study shows why clothing take-back programs fail—and what truly moves consumers to act

Retailers don’t need big financial incentives to get consumers to return used clothing—but they do need the right message. A new peer-reviewed study in the journal Manufacturing & Service Operations Management finds that simply telling [...]