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We can't air-condition our way out of a hotter future, says expert

As temperatures rise around the world, air conditioning is saving lives. But a growing reliance on it is also placing unprecedented pressure on electricity grids, increasing greenhouse gas emissions and making cities even hotter.

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Ph.D. project gives critical insights into vulnerable green turtles

A study into the foraging habits of green turtles in the Northern Territory has used an innovative surveying technique that could become a critical tool in monitoring marine habitats in remote and challenging environments.

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Fighting an emerging threat to strawberry crops

A few years ago, Austin Wrenn noticed something unsettling in his strawberry greenhouses at Wrenn's Farm in Zebulon, North Carolina. He was one of the first growers in the state to experience losses from an unexpected, aggressive fungal pathogen known as Neopestalotiopsis, or Neo

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Tax-avoiding firms more likely to greenwash, analysis of 391 ASX companies suggests

Businesses today face growing dual pressures to deliver strong financial performance while also demonstrating environmental and social responsibility. New research from Murdoch University published in Business Strategy & Development has found that companies that aggressively avoi

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Antarctic ozone loss drove unexpected Southern Ocean cooling, climate model shows

The Southern Ocean has long stood out as an oddity in the global climate system. While most of the planet's surface oceans have warmed in response to rising greenhouse gases, waters circling Antarctica showed an unexpected tendency to cool during the late 20th and early 21st cent

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The fight against green ‘waste’: how a Victorian community came together to create garden

Kitchen scraps and garden waste can be a valuable resource. But some communities are forgoing the Fogo bin and collecting their own compostChange by degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household’s carbon footprintGot a question

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Greenland meltwater adds to AMOC weakening, but updated model finds no tipping point in si

The state of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) has been a hot topic among climate scientists in recent years. The AMOC is crucial for climate regulation because it pulls warm surface water from the tropics north and sends colder, deeper water south, redistrib

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'This was something new': What people in Greenland told us about learning to live with wil

After several quieter years, wildfires have returned to western Greenland. O recorte ajuda a contextualizar a pauta dentro de Agro.

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Why put solar panels on green space when we could put them over car parks?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions considers a hot topic within renewable energyThis week’s replies: Are there places on Earth where humans haven’t been?I would like to know why we build solar farms over green space, when we could just put th

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European cities short on shade as heat waves hit, urban mapping reveals

More than four in five homes and workplaces across 25 European cities have less nearby tree canopy than what is needed for meaningful cooling, according to an open-data analysis by an urban greening expert.

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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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Nanobubbles cleaned up the Lincoln reflecting pool: Here's how they could be used on dying

Ahead of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in the U.S., an ozone nanobubble system has been used to keep the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool clear. Months before the celebrations, a massive cleanup of the pool had taken place, but despite this, an algae bl

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