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Soil is losing nitrogen, along with its climate-fighting power
Plants can’t pull carbon from the air without nitrogen in...
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Food waste can be used to make biodegradable plastic
Americans throw away staggering amounts of food waste. The U.S....
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How aspen forests can help stop wildfires in their tracks
Aspen trees, long admired for their beauty, may also be...
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Forest removal can turn rare floods into regular disasters
Forests do more than provide timber and shelter wildlife. They...
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How tiny sugars in the Southern Ocean help clouds freeze
Tiny bits of organic matter bobbing at the ocean’s surface...
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Why rivers split: A century-old mystery has finally been solved
Rivers shape life on Earth. They deliver water, sediment, and...
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Scientists report an unexpected accumulation of radioactive material in the ocean
Scientists analyzing sediment scraped from a rugged ridge nearly three...
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Birds are building nests with plastic, and the consequences are deadly
A new study shows how everyday waste - like ropes...
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Why the Southern jet stream is shifting - and what it means
A fast belt of westerly winds that helps shape summer...
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Earth's last ocean crisis wiped out coral reefs - will it happen again?
Around 201 million years ago, acidification turned Earth’s oceans from...
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NASA's flying science labs are mapping minerals and deposits from high in the sky
From space exploration to mapping minerals from the skies, NASA’s...
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