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Flooding rains, ocean gains: How a huge Murray flood gave the sea a feast

For decades, the rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin have been heavily regulated by dams and irrigation networks. As a result, the volume of water entering the ocean is about 60% smaller than 100 years ago. But nature broke through during massive floods over the summer of 2022–23,

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Three firefighters die battling huge wildfires on Colorado-Utah border

A number of blazes have been raging across Utah and Colorado, leading both governors to declare states of emergency. O recorte ajuda a contextualizar a pauta dentro de Agro.

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Nominate your invertebrate of the year

We’re asking people from around the world to nominate their favourite spineless species for our third Invertebrate of the Year competitionStep aside World Cup heroes, there’s a bigger global competition in town. The whistle has been blown to launch the third Invertebrate of the Y

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Huge, specially designed heat pump saves a Norwegian agricultural cooperative millions

There are some magical limits to how much energy we can get out of a heat pump. This story is about pushing the technical limits. It is about getting more energy out than you put in. And it's about how SINTEF—one of Europe's largest applied research organizations—the renewable en

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Sightings of humpback whales surge in Rio de Janeiro, fueling demand for whale-watching tr

Sightings of humpback whales off Rio de Janeiro's coast are surging as they recover from decimation due to commercial whaling, prompting an acceleration in the demand for whale-watching excursions to spot the huge marine creatures during their annual migration.

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Dynamic black holes may obey Hawking-style thermodynamics with an alternative entropy meas

Of the known things in the universe, black holes are among the most extreme. They pack huge amounts of mass densely into a small area, producing gravity that is so strong that even light cannot escape. To describe their properties, physicists have relied on complex equations from

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Congo River freshwater rides 49-day Atlantic eddy to travel 200 kilometers offshore

The Congo River is the second-largest river in the world, releasing an average of 40,000 cubic meters of water per second into the Atlantic Ocean. This huge discharge rate creates a large plume of fresh water that fans out 800 kilometers (500 miles) offshore.

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‘They ate the shrimp, they even ate the crab’: Thai fishers count the cost of a voracious

Huge numbers of blackchin tilapia, a fish native to west Africa, are wreaking havoc among Thailand’s river ecosystems. Experts – and some chefs – are seeking sustainable solutionsThe menu at Kor-Tae seafood restaurant, in Thailand’s Samut Prakan province, is filled with Thai clas

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‘It’s smoke and mirrors’: hope turns to fear in Scottish village chosen for AI datacentre

Suspicions grow in Lanarkshire that local people have been misled on supposed benefits of the huge developmentRevealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promiseWhat are Britain’s AI growth zones and are the plans feasible or ‘complete bunk’?The p

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NASA satellites are watching Earth's newest island rise from the sea

A newly discovered underwater volcanic eruption north of Papua New Guinea is unfolding in one of the world's most poorly mapped ocean basins. Satellites have spotted steam plumes, ash, thermal hotspots, and huge floating pumice rafts, suggesting magma is rising surprisingly close

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World's largest whale graveyard discovered by Chinese sub

The world's largest whale graveyard has been discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean by Chinese scientists, who found that the vast expanse of both new and ancient carcasses supports huge communities of deep-sea life.

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‘Huge wave’ of carbon storage projects causes alarm in small-town USA as oil firms eye bil

Dozens of projects are in development across US despite concerns over environmental and health risksThe plan to bury carbon under remote Indiana farmland is supposed to be a slam dunk for the climate, according to its supporters – all generously funded by US tax dollars.But as fa

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