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

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 […]

First complete record of global underground CO₂ storage released

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The first-ever audited account of the actual amounts of CO2 stored underground by CCS projects globally has been released. It was created by a new international consortium of scientists and industrial partners, including NTNU.This post […]

California beaches are holding steady or gaining width, showing more resilience than expected

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Two new studies from researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography provide encouraging news about California’s beaches at both local and statewide scales.This post was originally published on this site

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 [...]
Black families pay more to keep their houses warm than average American families

Rising energy costs consume a bigger and bigger chunk of family budgets in the United States. Our research has found that for many African American families, those costs take an extra big bite out of [...]
Why top firms paradoxically fire good workers

Why do the world’s most prestigious firms—such as McKinsey, Goldman Sachs and other elite consulting giants, investment banks, and law practices—hire the brightest talents, train them intensively, and then, after a few years, send many [...]