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Ancient groundwater records reveal worrying forecast for US SouthwestGroundwater records from the last ice age indicate that aquifers in the U.S. Southwest are more sensitive to global warming than aquifers in the Pacific Northwest.
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Covering poop lagoons with a tarp could cut 80% of methane emissions from dairy farms"Digesters" that convert methane from manure ponds into fuel can dramatically reduce emissions of this potent greenhouse gas on dairy farms, scientists have found.
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Earth's energy imbalance is rising much faster than scientists expected — and now researchers worry they might lose the means to figure out whyFor reasons still unknown, Earth's energy imbalance is rising much faster than models can account for. Now, scientists are calling for long-term investment in monitoring capability, so that they can make informed predictions about climate change.
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Almost 2 billion people could see a change in rain patterns if the planet continues to warmHigher global temperatures mean the intertropical convergence zone could shift south — throwing off precipitation trends for a major swath of humanity, according to new research.
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The decline of key Atlantic currents is underway, and it's been flooding parts of the US for 20 yearsNew research has linked sea level rise and an increase in flooding in the U.S. Northeast over the past 20 years to the breakdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).
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Climate change made April's catastrophic floods worse, report findsA report into April's deadly flooding has found that climate change made the central Mississippi River valley's extreme weather event more likely and more intense.
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Kids born today are going to grow up in a hellscape, grim climate study findsExposure to extreme climate events will increase two to seven times more for those born in 2020 compared with those in 1960, a new study warns.
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'The Big One' could rock the Pacific Northwest and fuel sea-level rise and massive floodingThe geology of the Cascadia subduction zone has largely staved off climate-related sea-level rise in the Pacific Northwest, but that could reverse in an instant.
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Climate wars are approaching — and they will redefine global conflictOpinion Climate change's profound reshaping of conflict dynamics is already underway. The question facing humanity now is not whether we will confront these pressures, but how we will choose to do so.
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